Re: [Failure] The Package Smoketest

Stephen> The reason for doing anything in a branch is to avoid Stephen> interrupting work on the mainline. Yes but what is interrupted is the smoketest and the ability to deliver a distribution. The smoketest problem might look bad but the reason for having the smoketest is to find problems early so they can get fixed. In this case the smoketest has indicated a problem, we know the reason so next we are waiting for it to get fixed. As I said it might not look good with red builds but might be accepted for major work. If the smoketest would have been smarter it would have built each package separately and we would only have a red auctex build. Would that have been better and acceptable? Concerning the second problem with making a distribution I thought that it was dependent on whether all packages was in a state of readiness. And that means more than just being able to compile it. Maybe there is a third problem as well. How ready will the synced package be when it builds. Is a longer testing period needed before it can go into the distribution? The branch was never discussed before we thought the patch to XEmacs.rules was needed so we didn't consider using a branch for this reason. Yours -- %% Mats _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta