OK, I've been misleading - I was mainly referring to the other open source projects that are in Darwin / OS X, and that all have to build/run for a system release. We don't have an organized testsuite of open source projects, although we've talked about it a bit. The main disincentive is the sheer volume of projects; I estimate OS X totals around 30Mloc, would take days to build if we only used one machine, so we have plenty of turnaround and time consumption problems now.
One of the goals in making our live repository visible was to enable external people to try out the compiler on their favorite code and let us know how it went - much more efficient to catch bugs as they're introduced rather than in a Radar some time later. Stan Per Persson wrote: > Stan et al, > first I'd like to take the opportunity to thank you all for the great > job that you are doing, I'm learning a lot from lurking on this and > other lists way above my level. > > I was (pleasantly) surprised to learn that you run open source project > as test cases. One such project, octave - www.octave.org, has proven > to be particularly nasty to port, exposing lots of bugs particulartly > wrt c++ and templates. It is a very important piece of software to > large parts of the scientific community. > > Is octave in your test set, and if not, is there any way (short of > bribing;-) to pursuade you to add it? > > /Per > ---- > Blekinge Institute of Technology > www.its.bth.se/staff/pee > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On torsdag, september 12, 2002, at 07:31 , Stan Shebs wrote: > >> We do have thousands of open source projects that are test subjects - >> you're >> the first person I've heard of that's tried to compile ddd though. >> Isn't there a Fink >> or gnu-darwin binary already? In any case, if you mention ddd >> versions and the >> like, I can fire up a build and see if it reproduces. >> >> Stan > > > >
