Suggestion re altering the build system

[Ian Lynagh]

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:12:48PM +1000, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:
> >
> >I'm not sure that working on a branch would help here.  In a sense the 
> >build system work *is* being done in a branch - a private branch, and 
> >making the branch public wouldn't really help, because nobody else would 
> >be testing it.  I suspect we'd have a similar batch of failures when the 
> >code was merged into the HEAD and tested in a wider variety of 
> >configurations than Ian can reasonably test on his own.  Add to that the 
> >extra overhead of developing on a branch (with multiple repos) and I'd 
> >say this isn't the way forward.
> 
> Maybe the work is on a branch, but it is pushed into the head frequently 
> enough that it doesn't make a difference.

FWIW I wasn't really aware that the HEAD was being frequently broken by
build system changes. Pretty much everything since the mass push (that
broke building in trees with unbuildable libraries (which I didn't think
to test)) has been to fix a problem, I think.

> And I don't agree that a 
> public branch wouldn't help.  A public branch with a call for wider 
> testing at points where you think it actually works would get it at 
> least some testing before it hits everybody.

OK, giving it a go  :-)


Thanks
Ian