Re: [boost] VC 7.1/8.0 regression testing, call for volunteers

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-17 14:36:04

"Carl Daniel" <cpdaniel_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> "Carl Daniel" <cpdaniel_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>> Does anyone have a set of instructions for building and running the
>>> regression tests WITHOUT using Python?  Right now, that's the
>>> sticking point - Python's not installed, and I'm unable to install
>>> it.  If I could put together a ZIP file with all the command line
>>> tools pre-built and a simple BATch file to run them, that'd be a
>>> workable solution.
>>
>> Somehow if they're letting us upload, build, and run our code it seems
>> like it should be possible to upload, build, and run Python, no?
>
> True that - I could upload the sources and just build it in place. 

It's trivial; I would just go ahead and do it.  The build system is
set up to work with a development installation of Python.

> Hopefully someone on the VC++ team can just install ActivePython on
> the machine for me.  If I build Python locally, is there a
> straightforward way to identify all the files I'd need to push to
> the machine to have it work there?  

Not that I know of.  Why not just do the build remotely?

> I'm assuming there'd be more to it than just python.exe.

Yeah, all of the standard library, for example.  And python.dll.  Not
sure what else right now.

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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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