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


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