On 11/21/06, James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com> wrote:
> Martin Schaffstall writes:
> > It is interesting to observe that each time the project reaches
> > another milestone a Sun employee steps in and demands a full change of
> > the project. But it seems Sun now shows its true face by tearing down
> > the project with unbearable review requests, essentially preventing
> > progress indefinitely.
>
> What utter nonsense!
>
> I want the project to integrate. I just don't want it to integrate in
> a way that will cause a disaster down the road. Having builds
> themselves break (as opposed to particular projects seeing testing
> failures) would be a disaster.
>
> In this particular case, the project team has repeatedly ignored
> advice from various folks (not just me) to the effect that building
> test cases to run in the middle of the build is not considered good
> practice within the ON consolidation, and that the _preferred_ way to
> deal with build dependencies is with explicit dependencies: that is, a
> flag day.
>
> The project team's chosen course -- using LD_LIBRARY_PATH -- to get
> around the numerous hurdles in the way of this discouraged practice
> itself causes new problems.
I don't want to join the trolling, but I think there is a problem with
the "partnership". Roland and Glenn are doing all the work but I can't
remember if Sun ever contributed code. I see many TO DO charts, lists,
ARC case materials, plans, drafts and requests to correct code coming
from Sun but no code, patches or even attempts to provide working
solutions. This does not look fair.
--
Josh
