[Laszlo-dev] [Laszlo-builds] FAILURE for 1679-openlaszlo-trunk on linux-builder.corp.laszlosystems.com

[Jim Grandy]

On Aug 27, 2006, at 11:03 PM, Mark Davis wrote:

> Benjamin Shine wrote:
>>
>> ...which brings up the idea of only doing most of the build on linux,
>> and pushing java build products onto the windows and mac builder,
>> which I should have done a long time ago, but didn't. So if I'm going
>> to rsync the cache, I might as well rsync the jar and docs too.
>
> So... One of the benefits of the prefetch on all platforms is that we
> know that it works.
>
> We've gone back and forth on this a number of times and we keep coming
> back to the build being our "canary in the mine". I'll argue for
> separate builds, but doing it on faster systems.
>

I agree with this. Our nightly builds are primarily a QA check.  
Timely delivery of nightlies is important, but not nearly as  
important as test coverage. Doing builds on all the platforms where  
we support building is critical.

jim