Re: make distcheck in tinderbox [was Re: make check failures- gnome-vfs, e-d-s, at-spi]

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 15:54 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 15:22 -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
> > On 7/18/05, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Luis Villa wrote:
> > > 
> > > > build/distribute daily snapshots like we used to. Not sure if that is
> > > > worth the admitted pain of nagging/etc., especially since ATM no one
> > > > is offering to build daily snaps.
> > > 
> > > I'm willing to do daily tinderbox builds with distcheck and all,
> > > as soon as you check in your hacks (in jhbuild, right?) and I
> > > don't get a notice from the maintainers of facilities I'll be
> > > using.
> > 
> > We're not lacking people doing tinderboxing.[1] The thing we're really
> > missing (which has always been more important than tinderboxing, IMHO)
> > is for someone to build daily rpms and debs for popular distributions,
> > so that 'average' users can use rug, yum, or apt to run CVS HEAD every
> > day.
> 
> What's so difficult about jhbuild?  Couldn't we make just make it easier
> (such as having jhbuild autodetect stuff in /usr and adjust
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH)?

Processing power. Time.

-- 
Andrew