On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:28:36AM +1000, Ben Lippmeier wrote: > > However, I think the nightly builds should build everything with every > way on every platform (or as much as possible) and also test the > install. If this requires the community to buy more hardware then I'll > gladly chip in/scrounge for it.
The nightly builds do already do bindisttest, but we don't stay on top of the reports. I think there are a number of reasons: * The builds fail for irrelevant reasons (e.g. loss of internet connectivity) too often * We don't generate good "This broke today" e-mails, largely because of the previous point * It's easier (especially on your non-default platform, where you generally have slower hardware and a less familiar environment) to fix build system regressions in batches rather than investigating them one by one as they appear * Like I said, it's not actually important for day-to-day GHC hacking, so things that are tend to get higher priority Thanks Ian _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc
