From kde-devel Thu Sep 16 22:58:53 2004 From: Manuel Amador Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 22:58:53 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: [abc] not compiling in [xyz] Message-Id: <1095375532.5475.9.camel () master ! amauta> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=109537607300406 Maybe the right thing to do in order to catch these situations early is to setup some kind of tinderbox like mozilla did. El lun, 13-09-2004 a las 17:14, J. Preiss escribió: > In principle, I'd agree. Great! > In reality I could not compile kdebase for about 3 days, ad I'm still not sure > to be able to compile it... > Anyway, shit happens. Its not the question why I can't compile it. Its not the > question how long it takes you to get this error out. You'll get it, we'll > get it, somehow, maybe tonight or maybe tomorrow. > But lets assume we are working on ...mmh.. kdemultimedia (dont know)... and we > are getting the latest kdelibs (example) which does not compile > (example!!!!). What you're doing next? - Nothing, probably. > > To declare a package to be "not compilable" would mean: hey, we have a > problem, dont check it out now, we are working on it. If you already have it > - sorry. In best case: we got the error in 2 minutes, you can get it now, try > it again. In worst case: oh, sorry, he/she's on holiday. This could be a > fix... > > The best case of this multimedia programmer would be : I am trying to get the > latest version... oh, 10 tried to get the latest version, but they all run > into trouble... > Do you know what I mean? - Just an idea. > > > Am Montag, 13. September 2004 23:04 schrieb David Faure: > > On Monday 13 September 2004 22:51, J. Preiss wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > currently writing on my qbuildkde... and read those messages about > > > "cannot compile ...". I have those problems, too (of course), so I am > > > wondering if it would be possible to declare a package to be "not > > > compilable" or something like that. Could that be implemented somehow? > > > > No, because we prefer to fix things rather than mark them as broken. > > That's the right approach, isn't it? > > Seriously, things don't remain broken for long, when they are broken, so I > > don't see your point. > > >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe << >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<