Re: [gnome-love] another new face

[Baishampayan Ghose <b ghose gmail com>]

Hi!
> Right, this happens _all_ the time.  And it's totally unpreventable.
> Updating code means you could introduce an error that prevents things
> from compiling.  CVS HEAD changes constantly.  Everyone is careful,
> but you just can't totally prevent human error.  If any one person
> messes up and commits code that won't compile, anyone compiling Gnome
> from CVS will run into a snag.  It's not uncommon that I'll revert I'm
> compiling to CVS from a few days before in order to work around
> something that I can't figure out.
Don't CVS committers compile the source before they commit a patch
into CVS? If they succeed in compiling on their local machine, why
doesn't it compile later? And if it doesn't compile, why do they
commit at al?

> Were you compiling from CVS or from tarballs?  If from tarballs, you
> have to understand that extra precautions are taken to make sure they
> compile; tarballs don't change every minute of the day whereas CVS
> HEAD can and sometimes does.
It _was_ the CVS checkout which I got from somebody. Yeah, tarballs
are stable but they are not that frequently released and naturally
don't reflect the development going on in the CVS.
 
> jhbuild is one such tool.  If there's a problem with it, we just need to fix it.
Yeah, jhbuild is _just one tool_, but there is a lot of scope for
improvement notwithstanding the fact that it does help a lot at times.

-- 
Baishampayan Ghose
b.ghose at gmail.com