[Buildroot] Buildroot Developer Day, Friday 3rd February, Brussels

[Yegor Yefremov <yegor_sub1@visionsystems.de>]

Am 27.01.2012 16:36, schrieb Thomas Petazzoni:
> Le Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:32:02 +0100,
> Yegor Yefremov <yegor_sub1@visionsystems.de> a ?crit :
>
>> That's where such tools as gerrit and build server come in play,
>> cause they perform automatic integration build and let you know if
>> patch is broken or breaks something.
> Unfortunately, it doesn't work this way with Buildroot. There is no
> such thing as "the build works" or "the build doesn't work" as in a
> regular software. Depending on what the patch modifies, a different set
> of configuration options needs to be set in order to test that the patch
> actually works. With regular software, you can easily test build a few
> configuration options (debug vs. release mode, support of this or
> support of that), but Buildroot has millions of different possibles
> combinations, which your build server cannot test within a reasonable
> time. So only an human being can decide "Hmm, for this patch, I will
> try out this config and this config and this config, because those
> configs are the one that will make actual use of the patch".

I see your point. So the only useful features were:

1. keeping all patches at one place
2. automatic checks for applying patches (not building)

Yegor