Heikki Toivonen wrote:
bear wrote:
Heikki Toivonen wrote:
bear wrote:
Heikki Toivonen wrote:
We haven't been able to provide a satisfactory answer to this problem
since we split into external/, internal/ and chandler/, so I am not so
sure it would be a simple fix.
The reason it breaks now is because the external process does an install
step that puts the generated tarball into the Chandler's download
directory. What I am imagining is that the external build place the
tarballs into a directory named something like external_downloads and
runs all of the Chandler tests pointing CHANDLERARCHIVES at that
directory. This will test the new tarball.
When the next step (the new one that also would run Functional Tests)
runs, it would remove the CHANDLERARCHIVES def and that would pull then
from the stable downloads directory.
I don't see how this would help. Any chandler/ tests run with
external_downloads/ would risk failure if there was an API change. This
is what we used to have when we originally moved to the externa/ vs
chandler/ build system, but changed to current system after complaints.
Pulling anything from the stable downloads directory means that the new
code in external is not tested.
Gah! now I remember why I hated trying to solve this problem :)
Heh.
But having pondered this still some more, could we live with our current
way of doing full build? In other words, you check in a change to
external/, the change won't be tested until you make the corresponding
change to chandler/. We need to ensure we don't make any releases or
checkpoints or the like in this state, but otherwise I think it is
reasonably well understood by our developers. For example, we don't mark
bugs fixed until we checkin to chandler/ dir.
The only issue I see from the dev's point of view is turn-around time -
but we have sped up the build times a lot.
I think the devs that modify external have gotten used to that
constraint - it may be a moot point for the short term.
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