On 09/01/2012, at 4:58 AM, Adam Murdoch <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 09/01/2012, at 10:48 AM, Daz DeBoer wrote: > >> On 8 January 2012 14:29, Adam Murdoch <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 09/01/2012, at 3:46 AM, Daz DeBoer wrote: >>> I think the recent code restructure has made some things unavailable to our >>> buildSrc project. I started to clean them up, but it wasn't as simple as a >>> few package changes. >>> Would be good to have a CI build that used the Gradle nightly to build >>> gradle. This would give us confidence to recommend the nightly to >>> bleeding-edge users. >> >> Isn't this what our integration tests are for? >> >> The downside to using the nightly build to build from source is that it >> becomes difficult for us to use internal or experimental stuff in our >> build/buildSrc. >> >> I'm not sure what you mean. I don't see how this would prevent us from using >> new features. On the contrary, we'd be forced to keep our build up-to-date >> with the latest experimental features and changes, which might be a pain. >> Perhaps it's that pain that you're referring to as "difficult"? >> >> I don't see the harm in finding out early when we've broken a feature that >> our build depends on. Chances are in this case we'll be breaking other >> people's builds as well. > > We want to do the following 3 things with our build: > * Use internal and experimental features. > * Use our build as a functional test, by using a nightly build to build > Gradle. > * Use our build as a stability test, by using the release candidate to build > Gradle over the release candidate soak period. > > We can only choose 2 out of these 3 things. We can't use the build for all 3 > things at once. So, in order to use our build as a functional test, we'd > either have to drop using stuff that can change, or using the build as a > stability test. Given that we already have an extensive functional test suite > and no stability test suite, I think we should keep using the build for > stability testing for now. Do we also think of the build as a best practice example? If so, I'm not sure we give it the appropriate level of attention. I could be wrong on this though as it may be just lack of historical understanding that leaves me with this feeling. In any case, I'm not proposing we do anything pre 1.0.
