On 9/24/14, 12:20 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 03:16:58AM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 9/24/2014 2:56 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
On Wednesday, 24 September 2014 at 06:57:14 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 9/23/2014 11:24 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 24/09/14 06:31, Walter Bright wrote:
But it is a bit unreasonable to expect large project maintainers
to rebuild and check for bugs every day. It's why we have a beta
test program.
The solution is to make it automatic.
There's no such thing as automatic testing of someone's moving
target large project with another moving compiler target.
It doesn't exist because no one has created it yet :)
I've never heard of a non-trivial project that didn't have constant
breakage of its build system. All kinds of reasons - add a file,
forget to add it to the manifest. Change the file contents, neglect to
update dependencies. Add new dependencies on some script, script fails
to run on one configuration. And on and on.
Most (all?) of these issues are solved by using a modern build system.
(No, make is not a modern build system.)
Heck, the dmd release package build scripts break every single
release cycle.
Digger succeeds in building all D versions in the last few years.
It doesn't build a complete package like the packaging scripts,
but the process of just building the compiler and standard
library is fairly stable.
Building of the compiler/library itself is stable because the
autotester won't pass it if they won't build. That isn't the problem -
the problem is the package scripts fail. (This is why I want the
package building to be part of the autotester.)
That's a good idea. Packaging the compiler toolchain should be automated
so that we don't have a packaging crisis every other release when
inevitably some script fails to do what we thought it would, or git got
itself into one of those wonderful obscure strange states that only an
expert can untangle.
We of course agree on all these good things but it's all vacuous unless
somebody champions it.
Andrei
