Re: [Chicken-hackers] gcc compile farm

[Felix]

>> I registered at the GCC Compile Farm:
>>
>>   http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CompileFarm
>>
>> Contact me if you're interested in getting chicken-stuff tested on one
>> of their machines.
> 
> That's very interesting.  Would running salmonella on that farm be
> possible?  I'm asking because salmonella is pretty heavy weight in terms
> or processor/memory usage.

I think running it regularly will probably become annoying for other
users.

> 
> I intend to add an option to salmonella to make it more light weight.
> The plan is to avoid setting the test local repository empty after
> installing eggs.  It means it won't build the same egg multiple times.
> By using this option, salmonella won't be able to catch dependencies
> problems, but would still compile and test each egg at least once.  We
> can still keep the dependencies check on one salmonella instance, though
> (e.g., at call-cc.org, as it is now).

That's a nice option. Perhaps it could also allow building only *changed*
eggs since a given timestamp?


cheers,
felix