Re: ideas for auto-processing patches

On Jan 9, 2007, at 20:41 , Jim C. Nasby wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 10:40:16PM -0600, Michael Glaesemann wrote:
>>
>> On Jan 8, 2007, at 19:25 , Jim C. Nasby wrote:
>>
>>> Actually, I see point in both... I'd think you'd want to know if a
>>> patch
>>> worked against the CVS checkout it was written against.
>>
>> Regardless, it's unlikely that the patch was tested against all of
>> the platforms available on the build farm. If it fails on some of the
>> build|patch farm animals, or if it fails due to bitrot, the point is
>> it fails: whatever version the patch was generated against is pretty
>> much moot: the patch needs to be fixed.
>
> Wouldn't there be some value to knowing whether the patch failed
> due to
> bitrot vs it just didn't work on some platforms out of the gate?

I'm having a hard time figuring out what that value would be. How
would that knowledge affect what's needed to fix the patch?

Michael Glaesemann
grzm seespotcode net