Re: Synchronizing James and Cornerstone

Sam Ruby wrote:

> 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. 


Yep .. count on it.

Cheers, Steve.

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Stephen J. McConnell
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