Buildfarm try

[Simon Ruderich]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 05:09:52AM -0400, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:
>
> 	Hello again Simon!
>
> 	Top posting to make one general and quick comment on this topic. I am very 
> very interested in this attempt of yours and will look into it in detail 
> later on, so do expect many questions on what you did coming my way ;-)
>
> 	But in the mean time, would you care to read my entry on logging support 
> for MacPorts "action targets" (read, those that drive a port toward its 
> destroot)?
>
> http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/wiki/PortLoggingProposal
>
> 	Following the website redesign, this is my number one priority and would 
> indeed love to spark some interest from our developers base. It is one of 
> the goals of my proposal to use the results of logs to create build result 
> pages & summaries like yours on an automated fashion, as detailed in the 
> Wiki doc, so I hope you'll find it interesting.
>
> 	Regards,...
>
> -jmpp

Hi Juan,

I'm glad you like my small attempt ;-)

I like your entry very much, it's very interesting and a good idea. Your idea
with the possibility to send the log messages to macports in case of an error
is perfect. This makes maintaining much easier as we (the maintainers) have
all necessary information and don't have to ask the user to use -d or
something similar.

It would also be easier to handle build failures as -d is no longer necessary,
which clutters the terminal.
And of course for a buildfarm it would make parsing the output of port much
easier and less error prone.

I hope after the website we can work on a design for this and add it to
macports as it's a real good and I think also important feature.

Simon
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