Nick -- Looks like I'm the guilty party. I do tend to do this every now and again, even though I don't consider myself thoughtless or careless.
I think sometimes I get focused on my local changes and as I'm testing and committing it just isn't natural to consider that a change in something that *depends on* the rest of Parrot will cause a build failure of Parrot. It may be that I'm the only one that feels that way, but perhaps not. A sure way to make the problem go away is to make the building of these other pieces of code fail when the problem exists. One way to accomplish that would be to have the various languages have their own MANIFEST files that are checked every time you do a 'make' there. That way, if I have a clean checkout of the entirety of Parrot, and it builds fine, and then I go off and make a change to Jako, I'll get the complaint right then and there instead of having to remember to go back and build/test Parrot again (which hasn't been changed after all). Regards, -- Gregor On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 10:43, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 05:49:41PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > I'm seeing this failure on a clean checkout: > > > > t/src/manifest.........NOK 4# Failed test (t/src/manifest.t at line 38) > > # Missing files in Manifest: > > # languages/jako/examples/python.jako > > # languages/jako/jako > > # Looks like you failed 1 tests of 4. > > t/src/manifest.........dubious > > Test returned status 1 (wstat 256, 0x100) > > DIED. FAILED test 4 > > Failed 1/4 tests, 75.00% okay > > > > Did MANIFEST get committed without some files? > > As everyone on the commit list will have seen, Dan fixed this > (and I misunderstood the error - files were added without the MANIFEST > being updated) > > How come people don't do a clean build after checking things in to verify > that there's nothing unexpected gone wrong? :-( > > I suspect that dipsy knows the answer: > > 18:41 <Nicholas> rule 2 > 18:41 <dipsy> rule 2 is people are lazy > > curiously, like Thermodynamics, a rule 0 has been added: > > 18:42 <Nicholas> rule 0 > 18:42 <dipsy> rule 0 is even if you know the rules, you're still a person > > Nicholas Clark -- Gregor Purdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Focus Research, Inc. http://www.focusresearch.com/
