Garrett, Would you be pushing some changes to LTP Ballista ?
On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 14:22 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 5:57 AM, Subrata Modak > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Garrett, > > > > Any changes for LTP Ballista ? > > > > Regards-- > > Subrata > > > > On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 16:19 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Subrata Modak > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > > >> > On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 21:42 +0530, Subrata Modak wrote: > >> >> Hi Garrett, > >> >> > >> >> On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 04:12 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > >> >> > So, as I said earlier I was going to repost Ballista under another > >> >> > project name up on SF thanks to the PI's blessings, so here's the > >> >> > placeholder: > >> >> > > >> >> > http://sf.net/projects/catepault/ (haven't posted the source files > >> >> > yet) > >> >> > >> >> Good to see that you have come up with the rewrite so fast. > >> >> > >> >> > > >> >> > Catepault so far does not differ from Ballista, apart from the fact > >> >> > that I rewrote the Makefiles to support cross-compilation, simplify > >> >> > logic, and to properly clean all binary targets (YAY!). > >> >> > > >> >> > I'm going to try pushing some of the platform dependent items from > >> >> > "configure" (a glorified Perl script) to the actual C++ files, or > >> >> > their respective headers, to get rid of the Perl dependency in the > >> >> > system for compilation. This will be a win-win (IMO) as it will allow > >> >> > more restricted embedded environments to compile the sources for > >> >> > Catepault without having an unnecessary Perl interpreter to just fill > >> >> > in the platform dependent API gaps. > >> >> > > >> >> > >> >> How do you plan this to handle in LTP ? Do you want to remove the folder > >> >> ballista completely and replace with new catepault ? > >> > > >> > Garrett, > >> > > >> > Would you like to convey your Idea here ? > >> > > >> > Regards-- > >> > Subrata > >> > > >> >> > >> >> Regards-- > >> >> Subrata > >> >> > >> >> > Will keep you guys posted as things transpire. > >> >> > > >> >> > Cheers, > >> >> > -Garrett > >> >> > > >> > >> Well, quite frankly it would be silly to have Ballista and Catepault > >> both in the LTP repository, as they provide basically the same > >> purpose, minus Ballista being executable on the target machine whereas > >> Catepault can only be executed on the build host. > >> > >> Plus Catepault will do the right thing by cleaning itself properly :D. > >> -Garrett > > It's in my backlog, which is pretty long right now. Our group at Cisco > has been really bad in terms getting automated testing infrastructure > out the door, due to lack of resources, so until these issues get > worked out I'm stuck with manually testing things, which is both time > consuming and error prone (test engineers are required for commit -- > for anything, as well as release/integration validation :(..). > Thankfully help is on the horizon, but it's still ~1 month away. > > FWIW, LTP on the mips architecture introduces some interesting issues > that I'll need to discuss with you guys later, and adds to support Some thing here to discuss as well ? Regards-- Subrata > overhead -- then again the image we're working with is from April, so > I'm almost positive some bugfixes have been made that address issues > that I see on a regular release basis. > > -Garrett ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Ltp-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltp-list
