On 20 Mar 2012, at 23:11, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > There's no reason why all of OF has to build. Recursive make(1) calls > can fail and be logged. It would be nice to have *some* method of at > least trying to build and test all of Octave Forge regularly. This is > independent of the release schedule of each package, but it shouldn't > be independent of the current Octave development version. > > Problems should be caught as soon as possible, when they're fresh in > everyone's mind. I would much rather know when a commit of mine to > Octave broke 30 OF packages than to have to dig later throug VCS logs > to figure out what broke and when.
Right, that's why it would be nice if pkg.m could run package tests when installing. Then something like pkg install -forge <pkg_list> could do what you propose > - Jordi G. H. c. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
