Re: Please explain the release notes...

Richard Levitte <[email protected]> writes:

> In the release notes, there's a section saying we need to check a
> minimum set of targets:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 1) Make sure that the buildbot looks reasonably green.  Let's not
>    release stuff that's known to be broken on any major platforms, eh?
>
>    Also check that the following Makefile targets work:
>
>     Unix and Win32: all check 
>
>     Unix : doc/monotone.pdf doc/monotone.ps distcheck dist distclean
>
>     Win32: win32_installer
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> What I'm wondering is this whole set of check, distcheck, dist and
> distclean...  distcheck calls the targets check, dist and distclean
> plus a whole bunch more, why do we need to try more than distcheck?

Good point.

I wasn't clear what all of these did when I added this, but they were
all suggested by someone.

We certainly want check to pass on all targets; that's primary monotone
functionality.

distcheck calls check in different circumstances, so it can fail while
calling check directly can pass. I don't think the converse is true.

It would make sense to delete dist and distclean, and possibly check (on
Unix), from the list; people can call those directly if needed to debug
distcheck problems.

What list of targets are you actually proposing? I'm not clear how to
interpret the "..." in your message.

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