On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 1:06 AM, Tobias Pape Das.Linux@gmx.de wrote:
Hi Stephane
Am 26.09.2013 um 09:05 schrieb stephane ducasse < stephane.ducasse@gmail.com>:
I do not understand what your objectives are.
This mail just wanted to list the different ways to build a VM that are currently used to make everyone aware of what other parties do. The starting point was that, from simply starting off the squeakvm site, it was a bit tricky to get to compile a VM for on your own. And hence Marcel provided this short tutorial. Eliot just wants to build the Cog VM in a way he has not to put too much effort into learning the build environment (did I understand you the right way, Eliot?).
Exactly. I want to be able to spend time being productive, not fighting/learning/changing build environments.
Our objective was to offer to the community an automatically build set
of vms that do not require
to be a guru to compile.
And you achieved that! :)
If people want to use our jenkins farm they simply can (just ask for an
account and this is it).
Thank you for that great offer!
We will continue improving it and use it to control the complexity. We
are working on building a benchmark server.
Now if people prefer to do it manually, they also can, we just do not
want.
Understandable. There are always some small thing you just want to change, and that is the point where one might want to compile manually. For example, in Marcel's case, he just needed a Windows VM that has no memory-cap of 512 MB, and he just wanted to compile a Cog VM with more Memory. Setting up an automated build for this small task seems overkill to me. However, in most other cases, continuous integration is clearly the way to go!
Best -Tobias