[skoll] GME

[Don Hinton]

On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Don Hinton wrote:

> Hi Arvind:
> 
> > I understand what you are suggesting i.e have nightly build that will 
> > build GME to spot compile errors etc when GME developers commit stuff. But 
> > again, at this stage, I don't know if we can test *features* in a 
> > scriptable format. 
> 
> Just because it hasn't been scripted successfully, doesn't mean it can't 
> be.  But that's not the point.  The point is that we'd like to use skoll 
> for more than just ACE+TAO, right?  In fact, as stated in the NSF 
> proposal, we'd like to use if in skoll.  Well, *all* the other skoll tools 
                                   ^^^^^                         ^^^^^  
oops...
s/skoll/escher/

> at ISIS are windows only, so in order to do that, we need to have the 
> skoll clients run on windows.
> 
> We also need them to be able to do MSVC++ builds too.  I don't think it 
> will be hard for Cemal to set it up, but since it hasn't been done/tested 
> yet, there may be some work involved.  I just gave him the details about 
> how it could/should work.  The GME team will be responsible for writing 
> tests/scripts for GME regression tests once we give them a framework that 
> works.  If guitar will help, great.  But doubts about the GME testing 
> phase shouldn't have anything to do with getting skoll clients running on 
> windows, should they?
> 
> thanks...
> don
> 
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