Re: Bash scripts in black and white

[Angelo Graziosi]

Il 15/05/2010 11.12, Juanma Barranquero ha scritto:
> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:15, Angelo Graziosi<address@hidden>  wrote:
>
> > Often the bugs come from lack of bootstrap, and bootstrap (+PDF manual,
> > +tar.xz of the binary distribution) takes about 25 minutes on Cygwin, which
> > is only an emulator...
>
> Bootstrap failures are few and far between, so half an hour* to test
> every change is a waste of resources**. In any case,  bootstrap
> failures are usually detected and fixed in a few hours.

I did not refer to bootstrap failure! and not to bootstrap at every 
changes. At least once per week or when there are many many changes: 
catching a bug soon is better than after some time :-)

> *: Not everyone has powerful, up-to-date computers.

My PC was born on September 2007! with the same XP!

> **: I *do* bootstrap almost daily; but I don't think it should be
> forced on everyone. If we wanted such an always-buildable,
> always-runable repository, we would be better served by a continuous
> integration setup. I don't think we want, though.

See above.

Ciao,
Angelo.