[ovs-dev] Autoconf limits on Windows

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Tue Nov 26 16:23:53 UTC 2013


On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:46:36AM +0000, Alessandro Pilotti wrote:
> 
> > On 26/nov/2013, at 08:10, "Ben Pfaff" <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Since you're OK with manual updates, I'm happy in principle with having
> > IDE-related files in the repository as long as they are not unreasonably
> > large.  But there's something weird going on.  Why would special files
> > would be needed for syntax highlighting or Git integration or even
> > integrated debugging?  Other editors and IDEs manage these features
> > without special files (I often use these features in Emacs).
> 
> Visual Studio unfortunately does not work with Makefiles, nor it's
> able to import a project from them. It can run a Makefile based
> project, but that's almost useless.

But why does is a "project" needed just for editing features?

> > I guess by "CI gate" you mean something preventing checking into the
> > repository until basic tests pass?  We haven't implemented anything like
> > that, yet.  We expect developers to run "make check" before applying
> > commits.  On a normal dev box (such as the 2-year-old laptop I'm typing
> > this on) this takes under a minute.  It isn't really practical to expect
> > a dev to do this on multiple OSes, though, so we'd need something more
> > sophisticated if we were to attempt this for Windows.
> > 
> 
> Are you familiar by any chance with how Gerrit / Jenkins / SmokeStack
> work on OpenStack?

We're not using Gerrit: http://benpfaff.org/writings/gerrit.html



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