Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen wrote: > Question: sometimes when something does not work I update to SVN TRUNK. > > However, now, the trunk doesn't even compile. > I can imagine it being unstable, but it suprises me that it doesn't > compile at all?! > > You would expect the devs to compile before submit? >
That's a really cute idea :-)))) No, seriously. For one thing there is not a single "compile trunk". What you compile in qooxdoo are applications, the framework itself has no compile result. So you would compile one of the applications?! All of them?! They might be broken in their own code, the framework being innocent. Compiling all applications will take up to an hour, and you still cannot be sure to have covered all possible classes of the framework. Then some bugs only show when you actually run (or at least load) the application, so compiling alone wouldn't be enough... But, yes, of course it would be desirable that developers test before they commit. Alas, they are developers... ;) Sometimes, especially so close to the next release (RC1), commits are being made that break the trunk (e.g. to pass a code change quickly to a co-worker). But these are usually minor glitches that are fixed with the next revision. I regularly try to fix those flaws, only to find out I'm running into a commit conflict with someone who was faster than me :). So, bear with us. Thomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
