Andrei Alexandrescu, el 5 de octubre a las 19:17 me escribiste: > Jason House wrote: > >Walter Bright Wrote: > > > >>Robert Clipsham wrote: > >>>Leandro Lucarella wrote: > >>>>Thanks for finally taking this way, Walter =) > >>>> > >>>>http://www.dsource.org/projects/dmd/timeline > >>>Now that DMD is under version control it should be fairly easy > >>>for me to adapt the automated build system used for ldc for dmd. > >>>I can set it up to automatically build dmd after a commit, and > >>>run dstress/build popular projects and libraries, even package up > >>>dmd for "Nightly" builds and maybe even post the results to the D > >>>newsgroups/IRC channels. > >>> > >>>If you'd be interested to see this Walter, let me know what > >>>exactly you want automating/how and where you want results and > >>>I'll see about setting it up for you. > >>The problem is if some package fails, then I have a large debugging > >> problem trying to figure out unfamiliar code. > > > >With small commits to dmd, it should be trivial to know what small > >change in dmd caused a user observable change in behavior. If things > >look good on the dmd side, I'd really hope the code authors would > >help with debugging their code. > > > >Knowing of a failure within an hour is way better than finding out a > >month later. > > > >BTW, such regression tests work much better when all failing tests > >can be identified. It can help with figuring out patterns. Stopping > >on the first failure can be somewhat limiting, especially if the > >failure will stick around for a week. > > We clearly can't define the language around a best-effort kind of > flow analysis. I consider Walter's extra checks during optimization > a nice perk, but definitely not something we can consider a part of > the language. The language definition must work without those.
I guess you answered to the wrong mail, Jason is talking about Robert's offering to set up a build/test bot for DMD, to build and test each commit, using dstress and maybe other popular libraries/programs. -- Leandro Lucarella (AKA luca) http://llucax.com.ar/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GPG Key: 5F5A8D05 (F8CD F9A7 BF00 5431 4145 104C 949E BFB6 5F5A 8D05) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- When I was a child I had a fever My hands felt just like two balloons. Now I've got that feeling once again I can't explain you would not understand This is not how I am. I have become comfortably numb.