[GSoC-2010] The Autobuild idea

[Joshua Root]

On 2010-3-12 04:12 , Pratul Kalia wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
>> Yes, that's one of the things MPAB is for. The other is automated
>> detection and reporting of ports that fail to build.
>>
> 
> Ah. Would that be by doing a dry run of MPAB?

Not necessarily. For use on our servers, the idea is to do both
simultaneously: run the builds, produce a binary if they succeed, and
record/report the success or failure somewhere. Other users may of
course only wish to do one or the other.

- Josh