[Vm-dev] Rant about generated files: should they stay in repository?

[Mariano Martinez Peck]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 2011/3/11 Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu>:
> >
> > On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Esteban Lorenzano wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> yes... that's what we (well... Igor mainly) are trying to do: a common,
> unified way to easily build a vm.
> >> So easy that even hudson can build it :)
> >
> > It's already done.
>
> Where? Do you have your continuous integration server hidden somewhere,
> which doing nightly VM builds and running tests, each time you commit
> something?
> If so, then why you didn't told us before? It could save a lot of effort.
>
> >And it could have been done with much less effort:
> > Check out svn, fire up an image with a script to generate the sources
> > from VMMaker, configure, make, and it's done. But you didn't like this
> way.
> >
>
> Of course i don't like. I don't care if it works for you. I can build
> VMs wihout much stress.
> And you can do that too.
> Now just don't tell me that regular squeaker/pharoer can do that,
> especially when
> he needs to modify VM a little and generate the sources.
>
> It never worked out of the box.. or maybe its just for me?.. maybe i
> am so unlucky that i had to fix one or two things
> each time i wanted to build VM. Always had a pain figuring out, which
> VMMaker version could be used with which SVN revision.
> And so on , and so on.
>

+1  For me, it was always the same. Even if I have few experience, each time
I needed to compile the vm, something failed...



>
> > Also note that this is totally unrelated to the generated files in the
> repository.
> >
> >
> > Levente
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>
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