[Pyobjc-dev] Re: cvs snapshots?

[Michael H. <mw...@py...>]

Just van Rossum <ju...@le...> writes:

> b.bum wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, July 1, 2003, at 2:49 PM, Just van Rossum wrote:
>> > For my fonttools.sf project I use a (found) Python script that does
>> > a checkout and builds tarballs. It's a nightly cron job. However,
>> > I'm pretty sure it does an anon pserver checkout, so it probably
>> > suffers the same problems. Hm. It would still be useful for people
>> > not comfortable with CVS, though.
>> 
>> Could we use the build servers to good effect here?
>
> I run it on a regular shell server at sf.
>
> I thought it would be trivial to get it running for pyobjc as well, but
> it turned out the script contained a bug that caused it to fail as soon
> as there are folders with spaces in their names. I managed to fix that,
> though, and now I have a nightly cron job running, outputting stuff at
>
>   http://pyobjc.sourceforge.net/cvs-snapshots/
>
> Please wait with advertizing it on the site until we're absolutely sure
> things work correctly.

I get a bunch of these:

tar: Unable to create pyobjc/ProjectBuilder Extras/Project Templates/Cocoa-Python Application/English.lproj/MainMenu.nib/ <Is a directory>

when unpacking... but using 'gnutar' works.  Would guess this is the
recently-mentioned on python-dev tar problem...

Cheers,
M.

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