Re: [Sbcl-devel] on broken builds and tests

[William H. N. <wil...@ai...>]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 05:18:41PM +0100, Christophe Rhodes wrote:
> William Harold Newman <wil...@ai...> writes:
> 
> > Any usefully multiplatform automatic test rig seems like an outcome
> > much to be desired. However, I was and remain a little pessimistic
> > because of difficulty in getting to that outcome. As far as I can see,
> > there's a physical prerequisite of reliable machines with reliable net
> > connections up 24/7 (or, for 75% partial credit, at least up for some
> > predictable time window every day) where the owner doesn't mind being
> > hit unpredictably with multiple arbitrarily-buggy SBCL builds and
> > tests. 
> 
> Well, let me put it this way: I can offer hardware and dedicated
> computer time for the next two years to build sbcl and test the build
> nightly on Linux/x86, Linux/x86-64, PPC/Darwin and Sparc/SunOS (and
> maybe PPC/Linux if we're lucky).  I probably can't offer vast amounts
> of my time in implementing this, but I can offer enough to get it
> running if someone adjusts Brian's scripts to work in a distributed
> fashion.

OK, maybe it's within reach already. (And if so, great.) My ability to
judge when it is Foo time, plus or minus a year or two, has since 1990
been inadequate for many values of Foo. And even if I had never been
wrong before, today it has been demonstrated conclusively that my
ability to estimate time to completion of debugging stupid network
problems is poor if not nonexistent, so I am feeling more than usually
humble.

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