[Biopython-dev] Volunteer buildslave machines? e.g. Windows & 32 bit Linux

[Manlio Calvi]

OK one step at time, giving that WinPython is a self contained
distro(or so is claimed) I'm downloading that and all the binaries
Christoph Gohlke use of compiling his tools (this mean all the
dependencies of biopython are built against the Gohlke's toolchain)
I'm downloading two of them one contain python 2.7 and the other 3.3,
I'll try to build biopython against those two when all the downloading
and installing went well.
Then I'll report here.
Only I don't know if could to all today

Manlio

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Manlio Calvi <manlio.calvi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well I'm currently running on the WinPython 64bit binary distribution
>> with all the py packages from Gohlke.
>> I could try to build from scratch but what I don't understand is if I
>> need to build every single piece of python and dependencies of
>> biopython from scratch or we could start with a binary distro and some
>> toolchain for building from C.
>
> You should be OK using the Python binary installer, plus the
> matching NumPy binary installer from Christoph Gohlke, and
> a C compiler tool chain matching what he uses:
> http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/
>
>> For the other thing PyPy, Jithon and IronPython, I never used it but
>> that means nothing as I could get interested in it in future. I guess
>> for PyPy is only a battery of tests against it and as far I understood
>> things either Jython and IronPython needs their toolchain to be
>> tested.At the moment I could build only one thing though.
>
> I've only tried IronPython briefly, getting Biopython to work
> nicely there is a project in itself. If anyone is interested, great,
> otherwise this is not a personal priority.
>
> Testing under PyPy should be trivial - download and install
> one of the provided binaries for PyPy, put them somewhere
> like C:\pypy-2.2, and then from the Biopython source do
> something like:
>
> C:\pypy2.2\pypy setup.py build
> C:\pypy2.2\pypy setup.py test
> C:\pypy2.2\pypy setup.py install
>
> Jython 2.7 ought to be similar, however the current release
> is only a beta and if I recall correctly I had to manually fix at
> least one bug in Jython for the Biopython tests to pass.
>
> Peter