Set up stackless in travis and tox

[rgalanakis]

See https://pypi.python.org/pypi/stackless-python

[rgalanakis]

This doesn't work: https://travis-ci.org/rgalanakis/goless/jobs/27487306

Created an issue to get more installers: https://bitbucket.org/akruis/slp-installer/issue/3/getting-more-installers

Going to merge the work into master and just keep it disabled.

[ctismer]

He stopped working on this early 2013, and the installer is probably dead
and not updated for current versions.
Stackless should be installed stand-alone from the official site.
There is a debian build that might do it.

http://stackless.com/wiki/Download

[rgalanakis]

@ctismer See the error here: https://travis-ci.org/rgalanakis/goless/builds/27503120
I also get it using Linux Mint 17 x86_64. It runs fine if I unpack the deb, though. Will try that from travis next.

[rgalanakis]

Okay I have gotten this working by extracting the .deb into a zip, putting that zip onto my website, then wget and unzip that on travis, instead of dpkg --install (dkpg-dev wasn't installing for some reason, didn't bother looking into it).

@ctismer, once/if you get the issue with the .deb fixed, I will switch things over to use that instead of this zip workaround. Is there a rough ETA on that? Also, getting a 3.3 or 3.4 deb, so I can set up testing with that?

[rgalanakis]

Also @ctismer , I tried setting up the Stackless 3.2 using the provided .deb, but it looks like tasklets have no 'throw' method. https://travis-ci.org/rgalanakis/goless/builds/27530920 I guess it's an old version of stackless? Would love to get new binaries. Disabling that build for now.

[ctismer]

Guys,

the stackless project is seriously endangered, because Kristjan was
discontinued by CCP.

Please understand that Goless currently will see less interest from
me, until the future ofx 16-year project is re-defined.

Sent from my Ei4Steve

On Jun 13, 2014, at 20:19, Rob Galanakis [email protected] wrote:

Okay I have gotten this working by extracting the .deb into a zip, putting that zip onto my website, then wget and unzip that on travis, instead of dpkg --install (dkpg-dev wasn't installing for some reason, didn't bother looking into it).

@ctismer, once/if you get the issue with the .deb fixed, I will switch things over to use that instead of this zip workaround. Is there a rough ETA on that? Also, getting a 3.3 or 3.4 deb, so I can set up testing with that?

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[rgalanakis]

Of course I totally understand. If there's anything I can do to help Stackless (or you, or Krístján), please tell me. One of my hopes for goless was to actually draw more attention to Stackless- the more I've used it, the more I admired it (I have to say, many times earlier in my Stackless-using days at CCP I often complained "why are we using this!").

Also, small aside: @chuim and myself were laid off from CCP just as we were starting to write goless at PyCon, and now both Krístján and @aukaost were caught in this latest round. Not a good trend for Python asynchrony!

[ctismer]

I was very emotional in the former message, and I was not aware that
your job also got the del . Back to normal ;-)

Appears to be a trend at CCP, although they continue to use Stackless for EVE.
Maybe there is a way to evoke new interest, by a multicore thingy trick like mentioned before?

On older versions: 3.2 is not supported. State-of-the-art stackless is for
2.6 2.7 3.3 3.4, the currently active branches on https://bitbucket.org/stackless-dev/stackless

Yes, there is a 3.2-slp branch which is not maintained. Will check what to do with it.
About .deb: I am not involved here, please contact Richard.

Cheers - Chris