[Coin-discuss] Re: What happend to CoinAll src?

[Hart, William E]

Lou:

I agree that unit tests for various subsets are key.  The Coin-All tests
are not terribly meaninful unless you begin to piece apart build
failures to identify critical package-package conflicts.

--Bill
 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:coin-discuss-bounces at list.coin-or.org] On Behalf Of Lou Hafer
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 10:28 AM
> To: coin-discuss at list.coin-or.org
> Subject: RE: [Coin-discuss] Re: What happend to CoinAll src?
> 
> Folks,
> 
> Bill Hart writes
> 
> > At INFORMS I mentioned that I would be interested in supporting a 
> > CoinAll project.  Given the caveats of this discussion, my 
> goal would 
> > be to have this project be stable "on a regular basis", rather than 
> > all the time.  For example, we only plan overall Acro 
> releases a few 
> > times a year.  It's too painful to get all of the software 
> components 
> > synchronized more often than that.
> 
> 	I like Bill's suggestion.  Coin-All did make it easy to 
> do full configuration and build tests and would certainly be 
> a help as we work toward automated build tests.  On the flip 
> side, lack of Coin-All gives me an easy excuse to put this 
> sort of thing off until next week.
> 
> 	In the short term, I don't see this as solving the 
> problem for our users.  The first few attempts at defining a 
> stable, compatible collection will have a high probability of 
> failure.  I expect that there will be several maximal 
> subsets, and no unique maximum subset.  At best, all we can 
> guarantee is that everything builds.  True interoperability 
> requires unit tests that cover sets of projects.  Over the 
> long term, though, this would give us a target to shoot at.
> 
> 	We would need to put a suitable warning on the wiki page:
> 	
> Through me you pass into the city of woe:
> Through me you pass into eternal pain:
> Through me among the people lost for aye.
> 
> Justice the founder of my fabric mov'd:
> To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, 
> and primeval love.
> 
> Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and 
> eternal I endure.
> All hope abandon ye who enter here.
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> 	
> 							Lou
> 
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