On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 09:52:41AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: > > - I think we should include install/binary-dist in validate for the > run up to the release at least, and turn it off afterward.
I think that if having it on isn't going to cause anyone problems (and no-one's piped up to say that it will) then we should leave it on. There are people trying to install HEAD snapshots for one reason or another throughout the year, after all. I think we would want to run the testsuite with the bindist-installed compiler, not the in-tree compiler, so that we check that the installation really is OK. The only issue is that investigating test failures could be a bit confusing, as a fix to the tree wouldn't automatically propogate to the bindist-installed compiler, so you'd have to make sure you were testing with the right compiler. > - In the long term, we really need some work on buildbot > infrastructure to let us easily validate across multiple > platforms, and to test install/binary-dist. I think we should re-evaluate whether buildbot is the right tool for the job before spending time on that. Thanks Ian _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc
