Hello, 2012/4/26 Łukasz Czerwiński <milimet...@gmail.com>: ...
> > On 26 April 2012 09:05, James <pkx1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> I've run patchy-test just now for the three patches outstanding this >> morning. It's no a big deal, I've just never got round to running the >> patchy-test scripts (well since the scripts were very first created >> when I had trouble understanding them), so don't worry about patches >> David now, I'll pick up the slack here. > > > Thanks, James! That's really great! :) No problem, but it doesn't mean that you can just do some code and throw it up for review without ANY basic testing your side, it should apply to current tree and it should also pass a basic 'make'. I am sure you are aware of that courtesy. It is true that Patchy does this also and so catches the basic mistakes, but patchy's main goal is to take away the more intensive 'make test' from developers which can take a long time on less powerful machines. Also patchy testers are not (usually) programmers - like me for instance - so I'm not going to go into much detail; if patchy shows up regressions then that is easy to spot - that is a web page for me to see, but more subtle 'make' problems or 'patch apply' problems Like this this morning - see comment #1 http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2498 are going to get a 'failed - patch doesn't apply' or 'failed to make' messages and not much else. Hence the need for some basic housekeeping on your side. > > Mike, Graham and David wrote about more or less automatic running of tests > and presenting only the results, possibly on an unused computer. > > I realised that I have a server on Dreamhost that probably could be such a > computer - there is unlimited disk space and unlimited bandwidth (to some > extend, I guess, but that will be enough for us). Now I'm trying to compile > Lilypond on it - there are some libraries missing, I'm in progress of > figuring out whether I can install it locally (it's a shared server, not a > private one, so I don't have root on it). Did you look at LilyDev? This is specifically aimed at LilyPond developers who don't have the time or inclination to set up their dev build. It's got pretty much all you need right there and yuo can be up and running in a few minutes (once you have it installed). LilyDev is a pre-built Ubuntu dist with all the dependencies. I run it in a VM (I use KVM at home but Virtual Box at work). It might be simpler. See: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/contributor/installing-lilydev The instructions have been updates significantly but I am sure you can understand how to install an OS using an ISO file. > > > On 26 April 2012 11:43, James <pkx1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> Still requires 'someone' to 'do' something and then say 'LGTM' and I >> don't know what the feed back has been with regard to the >> >> >> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/contributor/grand-regression-test-checking.html >> >> is this just not the same thing in essence? > > > Woow, what's that: http://www.philholmes.net/lilypond/regtests/ for? Is it > for rating regression tests or for rating that particular result of a > particular test run? Phil does a pixel comparison reg test between *releases* i.e. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2010-11/msg00078.html and has some programming experience so this is an offshoot of what he does with the project anyway and he offered this as a service, I am sure he will fill you in (I cannot find he original email I think he sent out). James _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel