On 11/10/2010 05:41 PM, Carl Trieloff wrote:
On 11/10/2010 11:20 AM, Gordon Sim wrote:
build it on a platform with deps install. that seems less error prone.
Actually I think that ensuring the distribution is 'complete'
regardless of the existence of dependencies on the platform it was
built is less error prone.
The question in my mind was more on whether we fix this for 0.8 or
make do by regenerating with deps installed.
Ok, I'm confused. I had asumed we would want it regenerated on a
platform with dependencies there, so they are in the kit. I had also
assumed we would want the tests run on it, to make sure it works. i.e.
also test that the dependencies are correct in the making dist process.
Testing the dist is different from creating it. Creating it is
inevitably one person's job (release manager's). Building and testing it
can (and should) be done more widely.
In my mind the ideal is that when creating a dist, the full source for
all possible modules are included regardless of whether the deps for
those are available at the time of creation. That way you ease the
burden of getting the system setup for creating the dist and leverage
the existing systems of a wider group of testers for checking all the
different parts. I think that is also less error prone because the
configuration of the system on which the dist is created doesn't
inadvertently cause important pieces to be missed. (e.g. at present we
include the cman integration sources regardless of whether cman is
installed when the dist is created).
However others may have a different view and/or we may wish to be
pragmatic for 0.8. At present the RC won't build if cpg is installed
unless you explicitly disable cpg integration.
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