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[Daniel Goller <dgoller AT satx.rr.com>]

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On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:50:39 -0800
Andrew Stitt <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 01:01:41AM +0100, Ladislav Hagara wrote:
> > As I wrote I would appreciate if sorcery could automatically use the
> > newer gcc and if there are problems sorcery could use older one and
> > inform about used gcc version.
> 
> Please justify why this proposed testing enhancement should be part of
> sorcery versus implemented within our existing testing framework.
> 
> -Andrew
> 

As much as i am for improving sorcery, there is no point in building in a 
fallback into it, new spells should be tested against new gcc/g++ and then 
the dev can look into the build issues when they arise.
Fallbacks like the one proposed makes for sloppy testing down the road when 
people are used to see spells install and progress comes to a halt.
The way it is, you can grep the spells and see which ones are forced to an 
older version, if it has a fallback you need to add more to prometheus and 
have it collect and report the fall-backs, and and and

I don't like the thought of that at all.

Daniel
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