On 31.01.2013 15:55, janI wrote:
but it still highlight the problem I had in the beginning...our wiki has
really much valuable information, but to an extent it is shadowed by
identical information which are not maintained.
I searched for ubuntu build instruction way back, and as you can imagine
got confused. Thx. to the brilliant help from this list I got it up and
running.
I hope we in the short future can get our wiki a bit streamlined (I am not
thinking about removing information, but simply mark it as outdated, with a
link to the newer information.
I totally agree and try to do it whenever I stumble over something like
this. I'd also suggest to reuse pages even if they contain obsoleted
content. If their title is general purpose, is linked to from many
other places and easily findable then updating them is a better solution
IMHO. If anyone needs to access their older outdated content it is good
to know that it is still available via Wiki's wonderful page history
feature.
@herbert regarding buildbot, I can see your point and agree with it.
However I still think we should document exactly how our binary
distributables are made. I have actually not been able to produce an exact
match yet where I have tried. When people want to play with the system it
is nice to have a stable start like rebuilding the release and the same
result.
For the exact configuration switches please see the page [1] I linked to
in my previous mail. To create an exact match on Linux you'd have to
install the "oldest common denominator" system that is used to build
releases. We can ask Ariel to provide all the glorious details of this
system, AFAIK they are plain RHEL5 and RHEL6, right?
These old systems are great for building maximum-compatibility releases,
but IMHO they are not much fun For developing. I personally love having
up-to-date versions of gdb, valgrind, perf-tools, git-svn, btrfs
snapshots, KVM/virtualbox, python, etc. but maybe that's just my
personal disposition.
[1]
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds#DevelopmentSnapshotBuilds-buildflags
I'm looking forward to see and talk to you on FOSDEM this weekend!
Herbert
