On 08:43 Tue 15 Mar , Kelly O'Hair wrote: > > On Mar 15, 2011, at 2:05 AM, Steve Poole wrote: > > >> > >> A singular process that everyone uses? Good Luck with that. I think that > >> is called "herding cats". :^) > >> Sorry, I've been doing this too long, if there is a variation on doing > >> development and one person finds > >> it productive for them, they will use it. > >> > > Sorry - I was not being clear. I meant that you must have one singular > > process that is the agreed "official" process. If someone decides to do > > something different that's ok - provided they understand that they have to > > take their lumps when and if they cause a break in the main build or cause > > testcases to fail. The important point I was trying to make is that the > > process used by contributors must always work. In my opinion the best way > > to achieve that is to ensure it's in use day by day. > > Ah, yes we have the "official" Release Engineering build system and tool > requirements. > But it's more in the form of a list of versions and fairly controlled build > systems used by Release Engineering > to perform the nightly, weekly promoted, and final product builds. > > The makefiles have sanity checks to try and police these versions and will > issue warning messages when what > you are using differs, and fatal sanity errors there is a high risk of a bad > build or build failures given the version > of some component. >
I think he means not so much your RE processes, but the method documented in the build documentation. > These sanity rules were relaxed quite a bit when we open sourced due to the > larger variety of build systems > and compiler versions being used out there. > There is no ./configure mechanism and no 'download and install' scripts that > install all the specific tools needed > to do a build, partially because solving this problem for all the Windows, > Solaris, and Linux systems was not > easy. Linux is easy in this regard, Solaris a bit harder, Windows is well... > tricky. :^( > We did that already. It's called IcedTea. > -kto > > -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and IcedTea http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://icedtea.classpath.org PGP Key: F5862A37 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EA30 D855 D50F 90CD F54D 0698 0713 C3ED F586 2A37
