On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 3:51 PM, James Turner wrote:
> On a related note, once the build problem is resolved, could we
> generate a full installation RC package for testing?  It would make it
> easier for testers not familiar with Git to use it, and would be quite
> handy for people like myself who do their development on Linux, but
> have Windows systems available for testing but without the git
> infrastructure or the time to download the entire git fgdata
> repository.
>
>
> Once the build is fixed, Jenkins should do exactly that - that's part of the
> automation work I did for 2.10 - Jenkins will produce the complete install
> EXE, someone just has to grab it from Jenkins and upload / mirror / seed it
> as they see fit.

That's great work,

Now all we need is someone with enough Windows knowledge to fix the
build.

> [1] 'where there's smoke there's fire', this is old terminology from the
> Netscape/Mozilla TinderBox engine.

I'm pretty sure the "smoke test" predates Tinderbox.  I came across it
when working for Xilinx in reference to hardware testing where the first
test is to attach a power feed and check that nothing started giving off
smoke :)

-Stuart

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