Andrey Chernyshev wrote: > On 7/5/06, Salikh Zakirov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Mark Hindess wrote: >> > Salikh Zakirov wrote: >> >> Using the fixed classlib snapshot will remove one factor >> >> of uncertainty, and will make the DRLVM behaviour more reproducible. >> > >> > -1 >> > >> > Doing this will hide issues that appear when changes to classlib breaks >> > drlvm. At this stage in the project, I'd rather have such issues be as >> > visible as possible. Such breakages should be relatively easy to fix >> > and any drlvm developer should be capable of rolling back classlib svn >> > until things are fixed if they get impatient. >> > >> > I don't see how it significantly affects reproducibility since it is >> > trivial to check/record the versions of classlib and drlvm svn when an >> > error occurs? >> >> I agree that recording revision numbers of both classlib and drlvm >> will be >> sufficient to reproduce the problem. >> >> The hard part is finding the "good" ones when the latest revisions >> do not work, in a case when someone wants to work on something different >> than fixing the latest breakages. >> >> I think that the reasonable compromise is to have both capabilities in >> the >> build system (build with classlib snapshot or with latest checkout), and >> leave it up to contributors to decide which way to use. > > One more idea - we have a web page with the classlib snapshots over here: > http://people.apache.org/dist/incubator/harmony/snapshots/ with an > option of downloading the latest classlib snapshot, or a snapshot at a > fixed date. > By default, drlvm build could use just the latest one. This will allow > to catch the possible classlib/drlvm integration issues at the > frequency of creating build snapshots. On the other hand, in case the > latest classlib appears to be incompatible with vm, people can easily > change the link and use any of previous snapshots. How does that > sound?
I'm -1 for adding any more auto-fetches to DRLVM. geir --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
