Another Browser...

[Yarko Tymciurak]

I ... needed a break from my computer so I (?!) tried to build / test / debug something that isn't python, that I haven't worked on for a break  (ha!)

Chrome is open source, and version 3 is in a reasonably functional state for Linux (I am using it at this moment), as well as for Mac,

If you too have a "bleeding edge" vein and you would like to try your web2py app against an alpha browser, you do not need to setup or configure a build environment:  you can try nightly builds.

See http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/

I compare my statically linked, built version against the "buildbot" built version (partly to make sure I built it right).

By trying this browser on Linux / Ubuntu 9.04 (as I am)  I think I am getting the following / learning from this that can be helpful for web2py:

• build-bot continuous builds (see comments below)
• _lots_ of automated test suites (as we consider bigtable more, decimal support, etc. this is a rich topic)
• python-base build system (there is at least one, lighter weight python builder which might be suitable for web2py - to run tests, package, generate docs)
• svg, css rendering, fast javascript ("V8"), and android graphic imaging components

Potential benefits for web2py:

automated build:  

for web2py, having a buildbot for running tests could be useful.  Submitting an app to a buildbot test suite could be part of accepting an app for a version of web2py.  Testing against multiple data-persistence backends would be usefule too.  In fact, eventually it would be nice to have test-bot database servers available for just that.

[mdipierro]

Yes this would be nice. Please teach us how to...

On May 24, 2:05 pm, Yarko Tymciurak <yark...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I ... needed a break from my computer so I (?!) tried to build / test /
> debug something that isn't python, that I haven't worked on for a break
>  (ha!)
>
> Chrome is open source, and version 3 is in a reasonably functional state for
> Linux (I am using it at this moment), as well as for Mac,
>
> If you too have a "bleeding edge" vein and you would like to try your web2py
> app against an alpha browser, you do not need to setup or configure a build
> environment:  you can try nightly builds.
>

> Seehttp://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/

>
> I compare my statically linked, built version against the "buildbot" built
> version (partly to make sure I built it right).
>
> By trying this browser on Linux / Ubuntu 9.04 (as I am)  I think I am
> getting the following / learning from this that can be helpful for web2py:
>

>    - build-bot continuous builds (see comments below)
>    - _lots_ of automated test suites (as we consider bigtable more, decimal

>    support, etc. this is a rich topic)

>    - python-base build system (there is at least one, lighter weight python

>    builder which might be suitable for web2py - to run tests, package, generate
>    docs)

>    - svg, css rendering, fast javascript ("V8"), and android graphic imaging

[HansD]

Nice starting point perhaps: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2009/05/28/practical-project-automation.html

[Yarko Tymciurak]

Nice link - thanks ... looks like this one is worth looking at more thouroughly