On Wed, Dec 14, 2011, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Matthias Kilian <k...@outback.escape.de> > wrote: >> - Make it at least startable (it was unusable after the removal of >> jdk-1.5, and nobody noticed/complained). > > now that the ports infra is growing so many ports from 6000 in 4.7 to > 7200-7500 in 5.1 (estimated), this is going to be a frequent > occurrence. is there a way we can enforce a basic "make run" to > atleast checkout if a port runs, somewhat like "make regress". this > should let us know much faster of potential problems. there won't be > enough people to test them all anyway. it won't be feasible for all > ports but for most it would be...
it's maybe even a good thing if breakage goes unnoticed. that means the port is unused and we shouldn't waste time fixing it.
