Re: Buildbot now just running a linux client

Mats Lidell writes: We definitely support (Open)Solaris and the *BSDs; there may be some others. Of the usual suspects, I think maybe Mike S runs FreeBSD, R Sparapani runs Solaris. I might be able to supply a NetBSD build slave. More important than wordsize to Mac OS X is system version (personally I'd at least like to see Snow Leopard and Lion, Lion is supposed to cause trouble for GNU Emacs and I run anything-but-Lion versions going back to Tiger, but I know Snow Leopard is in fairly common use). However, I think that having lots and lots of buildbot slaves is not necessarily a good thing. What I see on the Python buildbot farm is that keeping the bots happy takes a lot of effort. I don't think that's a profitable place for us to put in much effort. Rather I think we should focus on common configurations that exercise large blocks of code that differ and aren't really optional. Ie, for the moment I see the purpose of having the bots is an early warning system of breakage so we can say to people, "Sorry about the trouble, but that's probably been fixed already. Try 'hg pull -u', rebuild, and let us know if you still have a problem." So, for example, although I've heard that people do have trouble on Lion, it's not obvious to me that we need more than a Linux build. Most typos that break the build on Mac OS X will break most POSIX-y systems (possibly including Cygwin). OTOH, we do need a bot for (native) Windows, because that code base has a huge component that's nothing like the Unix counterpart, and APIs that change will break the build. I would say that on POSIX-y systems we should probably have both Xt/Athena-ish and GTK+ bots, though, because even though much of the low-level graphical code is very similar, both the event loops and the widget management code differ substantially and would be subject to API skew issues. If we get "other" bots, maybe we should have a two-tier system. There would be a set of core bots (as in the previous paragraph) where we run both a build and the tests (but only report regressions by default), and the "other" class of bots would be configured to just report build breakage. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta