[darcs-users] [darcs-devel] Curl build issues

zooko zooko at zooko.com
Mon Apr 21 19:46:37 UTC 2008


On Apr 21, 2008, at 12:32 PM, David Roundy wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:07:54AM -0600, zooko wrote:
>>
>> Ideally we will soon no longer rely on this channel as strongly,
>> since we will have robots to do that job, thus taking some of the
>> load off of human users.
>
> No, the problems usually occur on rare systems or unusual  
> configurations,
> and those are the systems on which we probably will never have  
> buildbots.

This objection makes sense -- we might want to support a certain  
system or configuration but not have available to us a buildslave  
running that configuration.

> And it also doesn't make sense to use buildbots for those  
> situations, since
> we don't want to spend the effort to support a configuration that  
> has no
> users.  Although it would certainly be nice to know more quickly of  
> simple
> regressions that cause the build to break on a certain compiler  
> (e.g. ghc
> 6.4).

This part seems to contradict the above -- if we want to support a  
system, and if we are capable of running a buildslave on that system,  
then we should.  If we do not wish to run a buildslave on that system  
even though we can, then apparently we aren't too serious about  
"supporting" that system.

Let me put it this way: if I'm investigating using an open source  
project, and I want a predictor of how likely it is that the project  
will work with my system or my configuration, then whether the  
project has a live buildslave for my system is a better predictor  
than whether the project's web page says that my system is  
"supported".  ;-)

In any case, the issue is moot for now, until we have buildslaves  
with all-green tests at http://allmydata.org/buildbot-darcs which we  
can point to as examples of known-to-be-working platforms.

Regards,

Zooko



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