On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 01:52:48PM -0500, Norm Jacobs wrote: > The SFW build has it's "issues" and we need to look at ways to improve > how we build, but I want to be sure that we don't lose any of it's > benefits in the process. One of the reasons that we are currently > asking for folks to build everything in the gate is that we want to > avoid accidental dependencies showing up after integration. The SFW > build performs some checks on the results of the builds and these checks > help us avoid issues later on. At any rate, I would like to start > addressing build/improvements issues after we migrate to Hg.
I agree that [re-]building everything periodically has to be part of the process, but it doesn't really scale either to have to build everything all at once. For now it does work though, and we reap the benefits.
