[Ns-developers] [Bug 370] ipv4-interface.h is installed

[Gustavo Carneiro]

2009/3/2 Raj Bhattacharjea <raj.b at gatech.edu>

> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Gustavo Carneiro <gjcarneiro at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 2009/3/2 Raj Bhattacharjea <raj.b at gatech.edu>
> >>
> >> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Gustavo Carneiro <
> gjcarneiro at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Hi Raj, I need your permission to commit the patch to fix the P2 bug.
> >> >
> >>
> >> This is a notification that Gustavo has the tree for pushing this fix.
> >>  Everyone else please refrain from commits while Gustavo has the
> >> token.
> >
> > Oh, we are dealing with "tokens" now?  I thought a DVCS was supposed to
> save
> > as from this archaic nonsense of us doing work that should be done by
> > computers... :-)
> >
> > Anyway, you can have your token back; I am done.
> >
>
> The logic behind this is testing.  The full regression suite on
> ns-regression takes hours to run; if others commit changes while you
> are running the regression on your (now stale) copy of ns-3-dev, there
> is no guarantee that a merged branch (their changes + yours) will now
> ALSO pass the regression tests.  So you would have to pull, merge, and
> run the test again for a few hours.  When you are done, if someone
> else has pushed changes, you waste more hours waiting for the
> regression test to finish.


Surely running the regression tests on your own host would be enough?  I
never run regression tests on any remote host.  It takes less than a minute
on my laptop.


>
>
> It is archaic, but has utility.  I don't think any VCS could solve
> this problem for us.
>
> --
> Raj Bhattacharjea
> Georgia Institute of Technology
> School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
> Ph.D. Candidate
> Systems Analyst
> 404.894.2955
>



-- 
Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
INESC Porto, Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit
"The universe is always one step beyond logic." -- Frank Herbert