Do we need to clobber Mac builds on these announcements? (The SCons build has only needed clobbering once so far.)
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Mike Pinkerton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey everyone! > > Given that clobbers are sometimes a necessary and required part of our > build process, we as a team need to do a better job communicating when > they're required. IRC and the waterfall are one step, but for those > that don't build on all platforms every day, a passing status message > may go un-noticed. As a result, I'm asking folks to please send out an > email to this list when a clobber is required. > > Why is this a big deal? The way our build is configured (at least on > windows), the solution doesn't stop building if it encounters errors. > As a result, you can easily spend a full hour doing a depend build > (that's how long it takes on my 3yrold PC, for example) on a tree > that's not very old and at the end be left with nothing but an error > somewhere in the build output. Sure, you still have to pitch the build > and start over, but at least you didn't waste the hour to get to this > point. When you're trying to build quickly to test on other platforms, > the setback is annoying and wasteful of valuable developer time. > > Let me know if you can think of better ways to improve this > communication for everyone's benefit. Thanks! > > -- > Mike Pinkerton > Mac Weenie > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
