On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Sam TH <sa...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Robby Findler > <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote: >> I, for one, am quite happy that we have a nightly build and hope that >> we continue to have it. I suspect that anyone that uses Windows and >> wants to keep up from SVN also benefits, since building under Windows >> is not an easy thing to do (unlike the other platforms we support). > > I know other people who use the nightly build regularly on Windows. > And the nightly build docs are quite valuable. I've also benefited > from the nightly build catching bugs that I've introduced. > >> I don't think the option two below you mention is feasible, simply >> because removing the file is likely to break the build in some other >> way. But perhaps we can have some other Bad Thing that happens (public >> blame anyone?) when someone breaks the build that would help get us >> back in shape quickly. > > It would be nice if DrDr could check this information, especially once > DrDr is down to zero errors normally.
If we can encode the conditions as a test in the tree, it will just start checking it. Jay > >> PS: for the record, I complained twice to Eli about the currently >> broken build, once when I noticed it because I wanted to point someone >> to recent docs and then later when someone else contacted me about it. >> So "no one noticed" is just plain wrong. > > I also noticed, because I wanted to point to the recent docs, and > mentioned this to Eli. > -- > sam th > sa...@ccs.neu.edu > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev > -- Jay McCarthy <j...@cs.byu.edu> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://teammccarthy.org/jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev