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

[Levente Uzonyi]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Igor Stasenko wrote:

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> 2011/3/11 Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu>:
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>> On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Esteban Lorenzano wrote:
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>>> 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 :)
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>> It's already done.
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> 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.

Guess where: https://pharo-ic.lille.inria.fr/hudson/view/Cog/

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>> 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.
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> 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.

Let's make it very clear: This is what an automated build system has to 
do. This should have been obvious from my response. People can open the 
image or download the generated sources ;).

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> 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.

It didn't work for you, because you checked out the latest platform files 
and some older (non-matching) generated sources.


Levente

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