On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 04:33:16PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > The benefits of not running regression tests at build time (saving a > considerable amount of time) do, IMO, not outweigh the disadvantages
Reading that, I wonder if we should rethink our build system. Currently on release we ship a snapshot of the archive, and do no complete rebuild. I wonder if it would be posible to bootstrap a machine and to a complete world-build for those packages which get shipped. Advantage would be a consitent source/binary version, disadvantage would be that we cant be sue that the packages behave the way we tested them for month. If there is such a separation between debug and develop build, issues like running tests or not could also be moved to a stage like weekly self-tests. I think it would be cool to have such a constent source configuration, but I am not sure if this is possible. The world on *BSD which supports this is much much smaller and more closely maintained in one CVS. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (O____O) When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl!
