From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78382 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus automatic builds Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:31:25 +0200 Message-ID: References: <8762qs3swu.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87r59fr05z.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1302096716 30267 80.91.229.12 (6 Apr 2011 13:31:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 13:31:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: ding-owner+M26686@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Apr 06 15:31:52 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7Spr-00019v-5J for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:31:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7Sph-0001aj-EP; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 08:31:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7Spg-0001aW-9u for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 08:31:40 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7Spf-0003Qi-7j for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 08:31:40 -0500 Original-Received: from v3-1008.vxen.de ([79.140.41.8]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7Spe-00077J-17 for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:31:38 +0200 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=randomsample.de; s=a; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Date:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:Cc:To:From; bh=tnj6HBBU+szj1oHgLui0TMISyXafVDMu2E8QIKX93ts=; b=BwmDNnn5HbsKXcfUWGiChhztkTvr9McJIPr3U2A+8OF3jGrFNP+M6aIfAaDesM4LSiFiuK2sC6IbPtKMhnaj1CK/36ZeXhs4vYK6VfR5Vt3zaiYAi4I3B5EX5Xfbm1lW; Original-Received: from [134.76.4.230] (helo=imac.local) by v3-1008.vxen.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7SpX-0001jc-77; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:31:37 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87r59fr05z.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Wed, 06 Apr 2011 08:15:20 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110016 (No Gnus v0.16) Emacs/24.0.50 (darwin) Mail-Followup-To: Ted Zlatanov , ding@gnus.org X-Spam-Score: -2.0 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:78382 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:28:17 +0800 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > > EA> The recent registry rewrite has introduced a dependency on the ERT > EA> testing library -- that library is part of emacs 24 but not emacs 23. > EA> That made for an awkward code update, is there any way to warn people of > EA> what's happening, or even include a local installation of ERT for those > EA> who don't have it already? > > To answer the implied question, "how do we catch version compatibility > and other commit errors," I think the right way is with automatic builds > against various Emacs and XEmacs versions. David Engster was planning > to set something up and he was talking to Lars last I heard. David, if > you need anything from me, please let me know. I'm eager to get > automatic builds working for the benefit of Gnus and Emacs as a whole. There are only a few changes needed to dgnushack and the Makefiles. I think I can do this quickly later today. -David