On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 11:15 PM, Ben Reser <ben_at_reser.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Hyrum K Wright <hyrum_at_hyrumwright.org> wrote:
>> The svn-x64-ubuntu-gcc bot currently lives in my basement, and was
>> recently upgraded to the latest Ubuntu beta release, which bumped a
>> number of dependency versions. The biggest issue with the bindings is
>> the bump to Ruby 1.9 which we explicitly don't support because the
>> tests are not currently compatible with it. It seems that Ruby 1.9 is
>> the Next Big Thing, and 1.8 is soon to unsupported, so a number of
>> distros are moving to it as the default.
>>
>> I've spent the evening digging into what it would take to support Ruby
>> 1.9, but my Ruby-fu is so weak that it'll be more than an evening for
>> me to actually make progress on the issue. I invite more capable
>> hands to join in the effort.
>
> Yeah I noticed the Ruby failure. If the machine running this buildbot
> is being shared by some other use for you maybe we should split this
> off. I have a KVM setup dedicated for Subversion work and would be
> happy to host this slave as a dedicated guest. This would allow us to
> have upgrades only when we wanted them for the specific build slave.
>
> Obviously the work to move to 1.9 would still need to be done, but
> there's really not much value in having our build bot fail on
> something we're not expecting to work.
For the time being, the Ruby build step and tests have been commented
out of the relevant scripts.
I think there is value in running a bot on a stock (albeit currently
beta) install of a popular Linux distribution. We don't control our
users' machines, and pretty soon many of them will be upgrading to the
latest Ubuntu. A not-insignificant-number of those people will
discover their Subversion Ruby scripts don't work anymore. This is
unfortunate, and the sooner we can find these problems, the better.
Running a bot in this type of environment is one way to do so. (Plus,
I haven't committed a line of code in 3 months: I have to do
_something_ to feel more useful than just kibitzing on dev@. :) )
You are, of course, welcome to run yet another bot with its own
configuration, but I recommend we still use this one.
-Hyrum
Received on 2012-09-25 05:28:02 CEST