On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 10:02:09 +0100 Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <juanjose.garciarip...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 1:44 AM, Matthew Mondor > <mm_li...@pulsar-zone.net>wrote: > > Is there an easy way for users to reproduce these benchmarks and > > generate plots? I remember that when trying some benchmark suite I had > > some trouble to set it up, but it was a while ago. It'd be nice to > > have a comparision between official release versions too once the next > > release it out. > > It is a collection of hacks, plus fixes of Eric's benchmarks, so that they > also run on ECL, catch errors, etc. I uploaded a tarball with the current > version of those files here > http://ecls.sourceforge.net/ecl-bench.zip Thanks a lot for sharing, I might try them for local tests here > This reminds me that the releases are rare, and that the CVS/GIT > > snapshots continue to pretend to be the same version over long periods > > of time, which is confusing when users submit bug reports > > This only partially true. Right now ECL uses also the VCS (git) commit id > to identify itself. This distinguishes the different versions and allows me > to better find out what changes the user has. This is nice to know. Is the commit ID only a hash though? If so it's often difficult to immediately assess what is earlier or later, or the time of the snapshot, without access to the GIT logs. > OTOH, the release engineering problem continues to be that: a problem. The > only reasons why there are no releases is because testing on all platforms > takes time and the current infraestructure I have does not work well > enough. See for instance how many of the platforms here have outdated > tests: http://ecls.sourceforge.net/logs.html I am not complaining about this and I realize that release engineering is a lot of work. Fortunately the -current snapshots usually work well for my uses, and I'm already grateful for that :) Thanks, -- Matt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cloud Services Checklist: Pricing and Packaging Optimization This white paper is intended to serve as a reference, checklist and point of discussion for anyone considering optimizing the pricing and packaging model of a cloud services business. Read Now! http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51491232/ _______________________________________________ Ecls-list mailing list Ecls-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ecls-list
