Re: [Chicken-hackers] gcc compile farm

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hi Felix,

On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 08:54:26 +0200 (CEST) Felix <address@hidden> wrote:

>>> 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.

Ok.


>> 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?

That's a good approach for testing eggs, indeed.  OTOH, by skipping
unchanged eggs, we could miss some opportunities to test the compiler.


Best wishes.
Mario
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