[Monotone-devel] Re: Windows build slaves desired

[Anthony Williams]

Richard Levitte <address@hidden> writes:

> Since I announced the buildbot on monotone.ca, there's been a few
> volunteers on the Unixly side of the industry that jumped in.
> However, not a word from any other major platform, such as Windows.

I'm happy to build monotone and run tests on Windows 2000 and XP. I don't have
any machines that are left on permanently, but if that's not a problem I can
run a buildslave.

> Does that mean that the Windows crowd is uninterested in monotone?
> Shall we simply not care any more at all, making monotone a Unix-
> only piece of software?  Personally, I'd find it quite sad if it went
> that way, there's been quite a bit of work done to make monotone work
> on Windows as well, and I'd hate to see that work just rot away.

I'd be sad too --- I've only just started using monotone (on Windows), and it
would be unfortunate if it was no longer supported.

> Remember, a build slave helps a lot in making a release that works on
> your platform!

The buildslave installation intructions seem very unix-specific. In
particular, runit is unix-only.

What do I need to do to make it run on Windows? I have python 2.5 installed.

Anthony
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