[racket-dev] Possible useful drdr feature?

Can you also add some quick file that has just the most recently done
push number?  (Something that I can poll with minimal cost for the
drdr machine.)


About a minute ago, Jay McCarthy wrote:
> I've added
> 
> http://drdr.racket-lang.org/builds/$PUSH/trunk.tgz
> 
> for the last 100 builds (going forward)
> 
> It's an archive of the git trunk after running 'make install'.
> 
> Jay
> 
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> > IIUC, after each drdr build, it generates the report pages, and then
> > it dumps the built tree.  If so, how about changing it: before the
> > tree is removed, it archives the built files (run `git ls-files -o')
> > and makes the archive available somewhere.
> >
> > If this is done, then I can do the following:
> >
> > 1. Given that drdr is usually very busy, download new build archives
> >   to someplace else (like pre.racket-lang.org)
> >
> > 2. Write some script that you'd run with `git pre-build', which would
> >   check whether there's a build archive available for your current
> >   HEAD.  This means that after you've pulled new stuff into your
> >   repo, you could just run this command and get a working tree very
> >   quickly.
> >
> > 3. Even more: if there's no archive for your HEAD, it could check your
> >   origin/master, and if that's part of your current HEAD history (as
> >   happens after a `git pull --rebase'), it will still do that.  This
> >   means that you'd be left with a tree that has compiled results for
> >   an older version, but with most uses of `pull --rebase', this means
> >   that only files that you've worked on are outdated, so a followup
> >   setup would usually be very quick.
> >
> > 4. Of course, that won't help with changes in src, and the script
> >   could warn you about that.  It also wouldn't help much if you have
> >   edits in core files like in the `racket' collection.
> >
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