Get a Mac. Sorry, i just had to contribute somehow :)
Regards, Michael On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 8:16 AM, James King <james_...@dell.com> wrote: > I'm not a committer on the project, but here's my two cents. > > There is a fine balance between opening the flood gates and having a > potentially constantly broken trunk, and having a trunk where folks know > that once they have run a sufficient test suite that they have not > broken things. There is no such comprehensive test suite in Thrift > today, and given the cross-platform, cross-language nature of the > project it will take a good amount of time and energy to make that > happen. In fact, a comprehensive build of the project requires at least > a linux and a windows machine, since you cannot create the C# runtime > and test it on anything else. Moving to something like cmake for > cross-platform make management would also be a good idea. > > Once such a test suite is in place, it would make much more sense to > allow global commits then. Until that time, some controls are needed, > and whomever is committing something does need to make sure they have > not broken something by actually running all the various tests that > exist. > > I submitted a major architecture update into Jira this week for two-way > communication, multiple services on a connection, multiple outstanding > requests on either end, and tight certificate based authentication to > the C# runtime and compiler. Moving those concepts into other languages > is also a task, but again requires a good testing framework to build on. > So that's the theme of my message; beef up the test suite (and perhaps > the build suite) so we all have better verification of changes. This > opens up the door to the other things that have been discussed. > > Thanks, > > Jim > >
