id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc launchpad_bug 612 build binary packages of pysqlite zooko somebody "This page: http://testgrid.allmydata.org:3567/uri/URI%3ADIR2-RO%3Asnrfwfxatrci35zdgjnzxxx2ke%3Aunarxv347edtku3xzmefy4mcdmfngxzeb72iyqcadbjzjpczjx5a/index.html (referenced by #566) shows a giant matrix of packages that Tahoe depends on, platforms Tahoe ought to work on, and version of Python that Tahoe ought to support. This ticket is to add pysqlite to that matrix and supply lots of binary packages so that using Tahoe's new {{{backupdb}}} feature will Just Work. (Currently if you try to use backupdb without sqlite and pysqlite installed then you will get a nice error message explaining that you need to go away and manually install those two packages on your operating system in order to use this feature.) Adding another library to this matrix which contains compiled code adds 21 slots to the matrix. (Adding another library to this matrix which is 100% Pure Python code adds 1 slot.) A glance at that matrix will instantly make clear that this process needs to be automated. Having humans build and upload those hundreds of packages would be a sad waste of a valuable natural resource: human time. Perhaps the good folks of the snakebite project -- http://snakebite.org -- would like to help us write a program -- possibly a buildbot script -- to do this automatically on lots of platforms and Python versions." defect closed major undecided packaging 1.2.0 wontfix tahoe-dev@…