Re: buildbot setup

[Lennart Borgman]

2010/7/1 Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>:
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:34:45 +0200 Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> LB> 2010/6/30 Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>:
>>> We could use a tag.  But as I mentioned there's a lot of complexity to a
>>> "success" especially if we care about more than one platform and set of
>>> libraries.
>
> LB> Would it be possible to write a web page with something like this below?
> LB>   To get last successful builds:
> LB>     GNU/Linux:  bzr branch http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/emacs/trunk -r 
> nnnnn1
> LB>     w32: bzr ... -r nnnn2
> LB>     ... etc
>
> Buildbot can do that, I think.  I don't think it's *useful*.  Do you
> expect users to go to this web page, read it, copy the revision, then do
> a checkout?  They are just going to check out the trunk and complain if
> it doesn't work.


They can act in different ways. One way is to do a temporary checkout
as you wrote above. Another way is to check this page if something
does not work in the checkout they have. Etc.