On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 03:27:21PM +1100, James Cameron wrote: >G'day Chris, > >I'll give a partial line of reasoning response ... this is not complete, >I'm short of time. > >Where I said public, I meant developer builds that can be used by other >developers. I didn't mean to imply public builds for testing by >non-developers. I mean the difference between what a developer does and >what a developer releases. That isn't only OLPC originated code, that's >also the choice of what RPMs to accept from outside. Accepting lots of >RPMs at once is the same as making lots of code change. > >Why don't you have private build streams? That's what I can do with >debxo, for instance ... build on my desktop, test on an XO, and then >avoid releasing anything to the public until I've verified that what >I've changed actually works. > >Why can't the build system be replicated so that each developer can test >their change before releasing it? What is it about the build system that >prevents it? I thought the build system was just a set of downloads and >put-it-together processes.
It can, it has been, and no one seems to care. See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Build_system http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Building_custom_images http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Puritan http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mstone/Commentaries/Releases_2#Practical_Matters for some historical records of the discussions. Michael _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
