[dmd-internals] What is the necessary to increase speed of merging?

Brad Roberts braddr at puremagic.com
Fri Nov 11 22:14:42 PST 2011


On 11/11/2011 10:03 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
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> On 11/11/2011 9:27 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 07:15:06 +0200, Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic.com> wrote:
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>>> They already are! The auto-tester does nothing beyond running the dmd, druntime, and phobos unit tests.
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>> Your auto-tester also runs on a much larger variety of platforms than is available to most contributors.
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> Yes, which is part of the point of it being available to pull developers. Though I suspect this can be a security issue,
> as they'll be running arbitrary code :-(

What Daniel did, a white list of github user id's, is a good enough level of protection.  By the end of this weekend 
I'll have the pull tester running on my fleet of machines, so we'll get testing across the majority of supported set of 
platforms.



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