Garrett ?

Regards--
Subrata

On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 10:45 +0530, Subrata Modak wrote: 
> 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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