Re: This is Great!
Vladimir Dergachev <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Sven Luther wrote:
> 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 ?
It would be pretty easy to use different configurations, even if one
compiles with x86 compiler.
>
> Maybe cross compilers could be set up to at least test if compilation
> gets broken for alternative arches ?
Good idea. Not that I have any experience setting up a gcc-based cross
compiler.
best
Vladimir Dergachev
>
> Friendly,
>
> Sven Luther
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