ant elder wrote:
I see no issue at all with adding a (or several) new profiles that
only build a subset of modules that anyone finds a useful combination,
and they could be just committed without needing any consensus. The
problems would come if we tried to make one of those subsets the build
default. Also a worry is that with the testing spread out in lots of
places we may not be testing properly by only building subsets,
although that is partially overcome by having the Hudson nightly build
keep building everything.
...ant
Ant,
You've hit the nail on the head there Ant.
It's OK doing partial builds UNTIL you want to commit something back to SVN. Then, you must do a
full build - otherwise you will have no idea what you are screwing up. Seemingly innocuous changes
can have significant impacts on other parts of the code - and stop other folk in their tracks. This
has happened to me personally over the past few months and it isn't much fun.
Nightly builds are not good enough - if you commit stuff without the full build, you've potentially
already messed up other folk by not checking that your changes don't cause trouble to others.
Yours, Mike.
