[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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