Here's a rainy-day question (it's raining where I am, anyway): if the Chicken project had a buildbot, would it make life easier for the community?
http://buildbot.sourceforge.net/ -- "The BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test cycle required by most software projects to validate code changes. By automatically rebuilding and testing the tree each time something has changed, build problems are pinpointed quickly, before other developers are inconvenienced by the failure. The guilty developer can be identified and harassed without human intervention. By running the builds on a variety of platforms, developers who do not have the facilities to test their changes everywhere before checkin will at least know shortly afterwards whether they have broken the build or not. Warning counts, lint checks, image size, compile time, and other build parameters can be tracked over time, are more visible, and are therefore easier to improve." It might take some setting up, and would also require a number of volunteers to spare cycles on their machines (on a variety of hardware/OS configurations). But I'm sure it would be nice for the core developer(s) to know that changeset X doesn't break anything on platform Y, which they don't themselves run. Just curious if anyone was thinking about this kind of thing; not volunteering to set one up (I'm already behind on my current commitment to the wiki-documentation project...) ;-) Graham _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
