Re: Synchronizing James and Cornerstone

Noel J. Bergman wrote:
>>Gump should have warned us before, but it has not been working
>>for too much time. We have to fix it. Sam is helping everybody
>>to get back to making Gump build everything
> 
> Sam is working hard, but one problem is that if GUMP can't successfully
> build a dependency, then it can hardly report when that dependency changes
> in such manner that when it finally builds it will break dependents.

Getting the system to cleanly build is hard, and a number of us are 
working on it (I won't take full credit).

Keeping the system cleanly building takes cooperation.  What it means is 
that people don't keep components failing for weeks on end.  You've 
known about incompatibilities, but you have not chosen to address them. 
  This is not a big deal as other projects aren't depending on you, but 
is a big deal in other cases.

Leo Simons hit the nail on the head when he said "Let's try and stop 
being the gump problem child, shall we?".

It is my opinion that the Avalon team is now sufficiently motivated to 
try to keep their components building under Gump.

- Sam Ruby