On 15/04/14 05:52, Jan Stolarek wrote:
I think Simon Marlow is even more conservative, and does his validate builds in a separate tree so he catches missing files. I thought everyone is doing that.
It's the recommended workflow, but I must admit it doesn't always work out, and nowadays I often just work in one tree. The problems arise when your patches don't validate, and you have to go and fix something - you don't want to go back to the working tree and test a new fix, you want to just fix it in the validate tree and validate again. So pretty soon you end up just working in the validate tree, especially when you're working on lots of small fixes. For larger branches a separate working tree works fine. The best way to solve this problem is going to be automation, where we submit the patch to a validate bot and get the results later. Wasn't Joachim working on this? Cheers, Simon