Re: Missing fns in snapshot?

On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 17:48, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Monday 19 May 2003 23.58, Robert Collins wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 07:02, Leeann BENT wrote:
> > > The HEAD snapshot from last night (and also the night before)
> > > appears to be missing something (P.S. - Are these always expected
> > > to build? I was under the impression that they were, but the cvs
> > > checkouts weren't. Thx...):
> >
> > The snapshots are expected to pass make dist, not make distcheck
> > :}.
>
> Actually my expectations is a little higher..
>
> the CVS HEAD is expected to build at most times. It may however crash
> and burn when started but should at most times work reasonably well.
> It is everyones responsibility to verify that their changes does at
> least compile and hopefully also work, and when not to correct the
> error in a timely fashion (within a few days).
>
> the snapshots is expected to be of the same quality as the CVS HEAD.
> The snapshots are after all automatically generated.

My expectations for HEAD as a branch are also higher that what I wrote -
I was referring to the process that generates the snapshots, not the
quality we strive for in the branch.

If we wanted to raise the bar on the snapshots, we could invoke
distcheck rather than dist-all.

Rob

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