Welcome to the Snake Farm

The Snake Farm is a project to create and maintain a build farm for Python and its core modules, mainly on Unix and is hosted by Lysator. This project is sponsored by the Python Business Forum.

Read the initial announcement.

The SnakeFarm has now switched over to using XenoFarm.

You can be a farmer too

You can participate in compiling Python on your particular hardware. This is how:

Download the xenofarm source and unpack it

wget -O xenofarm_cvs.tar.gz 'http://cvs.lysator.liu.se/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/.tar.gz?tarball=1&cvsroot=xenofarm'
gzip -cd xenofarm_cvs.tar.gz | tar xf -

Go into xenofarm/client/config. Copy xenofarm/projects/python/python.cfg into the config directory. Of course, you are encouraged to participate to the other projects as well; there can be multiple .cfg files in the config dir. Each will be handled in turn.
```
cd xenofarm/xenofarm/client/config
cp ../../projects/python/python.cfg .
```
Back up one directory and start the building:
```
cd ..
./client.sh
```
First time you start the client, you will be asked for a mail address which is put in the result uploads so those interested can contact you with further questions.
Lastly, you will want to set up some recurring execution of client.sh. You can run the client fairly often; it will figure out wether there is a new snapshot to build.

Getting results

You can get information about build results in several different ways:

Join the farm-report mailing list. It holds daily reports with recent builds.
Look at the status page. There is a similar status page for stable builds
Have a look directly in the files directory.

Change History

[2002-09-10] - Xenofarm stuff and short howto

[2002-05-28] - added buildlogs link

[2002-05-21] - page created