Re: This is Great!

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 07:32:37PM -0500, Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
> >
> > I'm really proud to be part of such a process, and in that spirit I'm
> > going to setup a mechanism for tagging regular (every two weeks) snapshots
> > on the CVS trunk (with the first one tonight -- 4.3.99.1).  It should
> > be easy to have the relevant changelog posted on the web site too.  For
> > those who don't know about it, we already have a running changelog
> > extract that's updated every hour at
> > <http://www.xfree86.org/cvs/changes.html>).
> 
> Great :))
> 
> I wonder if any of the vendors would sponsor a compile farm that would
> check that XFree86 compiles fine - and if not notifies whoever made the
> changes that break compilation. I believe there was a similar system
> used in Mozilla. This way the breakage would be fixed and the snapshots
> would at least always compile.
> 
> I am not sure how many computers would be needed - today they are faster
> and XFree86 does not use C++. Perhaps one or two would be enough.

This would only take in account the most common arches or maybe even
only x86, right ?

Maybe cross compilers could be set up to at least test if compilation
gets broken for alternative arches ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther