Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > I just wanted to report on the status of the alphabetical branch as it > currently stands. For all intents and purposes, I believe it produces a > stable environment. I have built many, many packages on top of it and > it's working wonderfully.
Ummm, I don't wanna be a party pooper but I'm afraid "stable environment" and "working wonderfully" simply do not cut the mustard as a measure of the effectiveness of the said changes. IMHO, a very important aspect of these proposed changes is to check whether Ch 6 can reproduce itself reliably. There is only one way to properly measure reproducibility and that is to do some binary diffing a la ICA (Iterative Comparison Analysis). My techniques (detailed in the gsbuild scripts) are not perfect but they have certainly been good enough over the years to detect quite a few bugs. Maybe you could integrate some ICA style functionality into jhalfs? Regards Greg -- http://www.diy-linux.org/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
