From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bash scripts in black and white Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 11:34:09 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4BEBC372.5010402@alice.it> <4BEDBF5C.1040306@alice.it> <838w7lfzdo.fsf@gnu.org> <4BEE5837.80203@alice.it> <4BEE6767.5090607@alice.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273916086 25196 80.91.229.12 (15 May 2010 09:34:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 09:34:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Angelo Graziosi Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 15 11:34:44 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ODDlc-0002fG-Ey for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 May 2010 11:34:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41169 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ODDlb-0001BZ-1s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 May 2010 05:34:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49683 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ODDlQ-0001AG-6v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 May 2010 05:34:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ODDlO-0007iF-DR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 May 2010 05:34:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f41.google.com ([209.85.161.41]:33630) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ODDlO-0007i3-94; Sat, 15 May 2010 05:34:30 -0400 Original-Received: by fxm20 with SMTP id 20so1588471fxm.0 for ; Sat, 15 May 2010 02:34:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=fHOkv6aNfDqkiUr3RmaOI3ZqKO9u63TdZ7sC4Py/XD4=; b=fCKrxnWaUE9aI+3/9UZFU2lbl9oudFQR8NKxPUgYuWLxmByocPe79mYBEOFYq9FrjN KFhgyf0eFik1Yd+u4oO+Wo8CrmDqJWMlrfLqqb/tes23qzgXNmU1NJ6wt9q9axGkaGu/ GmXitDaNwwQPRjEW90J+F0R0bdlN0a38rOoX8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=Mzn68BXSbuOW8kGMrHjHaqHkEJTdG5alzgBm+hyAMOVzfB/OiqXI2wd7N5KzXlGWcB fdTNjIsm4xfNuOm1S9eoaGbu3MfdY9/BuyRWGgrbjqrIvreMEqAvcW6kXo38l4KDDaiW EaUYRp9M+5r/HuhGX/QC0xwwfeRMetgjua2wY= Original-Received: by 10.204.135.211 with SMTP id o19mr91064bkt.98.1273916069114; Sat, 15 May 2010 02:34:29 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.204.74.70 with HTTP; Sat, 15 May 2010 02:34:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4BEE6767.5090607@alice.it> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:124793 Archived-At: On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:20, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > I did not refer to bootstrap failure! No, you did talk about "testing with a clean bootstrap". Still, failures that manifest themselves after a bootstrap and not a normal compilation are equally infrequent. > At least once per week or when there are many many changes: catching a bug > soon is better than after some time :-) I don't think there are many bugs that would've been catched by testing after bootstrap and are not detected a week after they're committed to the repository... > My PC was born on September 2007! with the same XP! My previous one (which I recently retired) was born on 2006. Bootstrapping was about half an hour. But I wouldn't be surprised to hear that people are building and bootstraping Emacs on slower computers (netbooks, for example). Juanma