Greg Stein wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 10:48:40PM +0200, Branko ??ibej wrote:
>
>
>>...
>>Greg, what absolutely astouds me is that you probably didn't compile and
>>test on Windows at all with the generated scripts before you removed the
>>handwritten ones. Sorry, but that's totally against our policy to run
>>the tests before non-trivial commits.
>>
>>
>
>We make all kinds of changes without testing on all platforms. Most
>developers don't have access to all of the platforms we support.
>
>But I'm not sure that's a good excuse for me :-), as the change was
>specifically regarding one platform. And yes, I trusted the feedback rather
>than actually running the tests.
>
>How about this: I have copies of Visual C 6.0 and Visual C .Net. I'm going
>out of town for a week starting Friday, but I'll get VC6 installed at home
>and give it a best effort. There is also a good chunk that I can do right
>now, without actual compilation on Windows (working on that now).
>
That would be wonderful.
>>So now we're almost back to where we were before I started hacking the
>>Win32 port -- i.e., we don't have a working Win32 port. Somebody with a
>>Windows box will have to spend a lot of time getting the buld up to
>>speed again.
>>
>>
>
>You listed the following items:
>
> * mod_dav_svn doesn't build
> * most of the test programs are missing
> * apr-iconv is missing
> * the .exe files don't contain version info
> * win-tests.py needs to be taught about the new build location
>
>I just checked in a change for the apr-iconv stuff. That would seem to get
>us back to "the port works except for mod_dav_svn". We're then missing the
>tests and version info.
>
Of these, I'd guess the version info is the least important. mod_dav_svn
should be fixed (somehow) before the next release.
>I should have a bunch of the changes for this checked in today, and then
>I'll personally test it later tonite.
>
>
>
>>That somebody won't be me. I simply don't have the time these days; if I
>>had, I'd have tweaked the generator long ago to DTRT (yes, that would
>>have taken me a lot longer than just maintaining the old scripts did).
>>I'd intended to maintain the old scripts so that we (I?) had more time
>>to get the generated ones working to my satisfaction.
>>
>>
>
>Fair enough. I missed your earlier post, broke the build, and will take
>responsibility to get it working again (as much as possible before leaving
>for a week).
>
>
>
>>As far as I'm concerned, it's now down to three choices: a) dig into
>>gen-make.py immediately to get it working in a few days, b) reinstate
>>the old scripts, or c) live without Win32 for at least the next couple
>>of releases. As I said, I don't have time for a).
>>
>>
>
>(c) isn't an option. I'm working on (a). Can we see where we end up by
>tomorrow?
>
>
O.K. I promise to (try to) find the time to at least test the build --
I'll be awa from Friday afternoon to Monday evening, too.
--
Brane Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu> http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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Received on Wed Apr 16 23:34:52 2003