Re: C99 (was: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc)

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On Friday, March 7th, 2025 at 12:04 PM, Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

> > It wouldn't help me, it would make things worse. I'd now have a 2 - 3
> > week period in which the pressure is on to fix all of the breakage from
> > the past 3 months, before I can then start on any development work I'd
> > need to do. After which I'd then need to go and sync back to my fork
> > and continue there anyway, as pkgsrc will be broken again for me within
> > days after the freeze finishes and the floodgates of untested changes
> > are resumed.
> 
> 
> I see.
> 
> At the macro level, what would help with this is if pkgsrc had CI. CI
> that is more granular than running full bulk builds and seeing that
> things started failing. Some system that would check each commit for
> breakage, with some sort of consequences. But that would require a
> very different development model. Something like each commit being on
> a branch and only being merged after testing.
> 
> --
> Benny

A bit like an old NetBSD dev (Juan Romero Pardines) did many years ago,
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages