On 3/22/2012 2:01 PM, Jon wrote: >> Would it be possible to generate a new automated build for mingw? If >> I remember correctly the mingw build-bots were down? > > Perhaps it's time to rethink the current automated build strategy with an eye > on dramatic simplification. Something that's less onerous, less complex, and > more in line with the current project resourcing realities. > First, I apologize for not being around enough to fix the buildbot issues; I never managed to get the bus factor high enough before effectively disappearing for personal reasons.
The only real reason to use buildbot for releases of any sort that I know of was simply to use the slaves. It is quite possible to manually roll a build identical to the buildbot using the makefile - after all, buildbot just grabs the copy from (IIRC) svn head anyway. Of course, there is no reason to continue using the makefiles if there are better alternatives; it was chosen to be able to 1) let buildbot specify a target, and 2) locally build up to a target, and possibly retry. To be honest, it's a bit ugly - there just didn't seem to be less-bad alternatives at the time. The builds (binaries) themselves were uploaded more as an afterthought - we already build them, and it might be useful for developer testing. The (obsolete) plan was to one day let buildbot handle releases (svn tag) as well; there are bits in the buildbot setup left to try to handle this, though I suspect it's broken. In general: I strongly agree that the current situation isn't very good, and wish you luck on whatever you can to fix it - I will try to answer questions, though I suspect my response time might not be awesome. Keep buildbot or not, just do better than I did ;) -- Mook ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
