[ros-dev] A few ideas requiring discussion

[WaxDragon]

On 12/13/06, Aleksey Bragin <aleksey at studiocerebral.com> wrote:
>         Hello,
> there are a few ideas I would like to get feedback about:
>
> 1) iBrowser. Do we need it nowadays in the tree, when we have firefox
> working?

If we can fix it's bugs (like form input), I say keep it. Otherwise
drop it.  I'd like to see getfirefox also removed and have FF added to
packmgr.

> 2) In order to slightly decrease a load to our build servers, Alex
> proposes to build Debug version without any optimizations at all,
> thus increasing compilation speed.

I'd like to see the iso archive consistent.  Maybe we need more
buildservers so we can build more configurations?

> For regression testing, release builds should be used, since release
> builds are the most sensitive to possible errors.

... and produce the least amount of debugging output.

> 3) RBuild improvement - the "components bundles" concept should be
> (re)introduced: if I type "make <directory name>", I would like to
> get all components inside that directory to be built.

++

> 4) Dependency map of ReactOS - maybe this should be implemented
> inside of RBuild too. Dependency map is a tree, which shows how
> modules depend from each other. Fortunately, we don't need to do this
> by hand, since we can use rbuild's parsers/etc. Output format of the
> map - open for suggestions.

Unless it can generate a very detailed map, I think it should be done
by hand, possibly as punishment for breaking build/boot.  ;0)

WD