From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Yang Zhao <yang.zhao@skyboxlabs.com>
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2020, #04; Wed, 22)
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 01:35:03 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2001250133510.46@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200124120240.GG6837@szeder.dev>
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Hi Gábor,
On Fri, 24 Jan 2020, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 10:39:12PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > diff --git a/ci/lib.sh b/ci/lib.sh
> > > index a90d0dc0fd..c3a8cd2104 100755
> > > --- a/ci/lib.sh
> > > +++ b/ci/lib.sh
> > > @@ -162,6 +162,9 @@ linux-clang|linux-gcc)
> > > if [ "$jobname" = linux-gcc ]
> > > then
> > > export CC=gcc-8
> > > + MAKEFLAGS="$MAKEFLAGS PYTHON_PATH=$(which python3)"
> > > + else
> > > + MAKEFLAGS="$MAKEFLAGS PYTHON_PATH=$(which python2)"
> > > fi
> > >
> > > export GIT_TEST_HTTPD=true
> > > @@ -182,6 +185,9 @@ osx-clang|osx-gcc)
> > > if [ "$jobname" = osx-gcc ]
> > > then
> > > export CC=gcc-9
> > > + MAKEFLAGS="$MAKEFLAGS PYTHON_PATH=$(which python3)"
> > > + else
> > > + MAKEFLAGS="$MAKEFLAGS PYTHON_PATH=$(which python2)"
> > > fi
> > >
> > > # t9810 occasionally fails on Travis CI OS X
> >
> > My only worry is that this makes it even more obscure what purpose which
> > job has. Nothing in the name `osx-gcc` shouts loudly "I want to use Python
> > 3.x!" to me.
>
> Do they have to shout that loudly in the name?
>
> We could rename these jobs to e.g. 'linux-clang-py2' and the like, but
> I think it would bring little benefit, if any. In our Travis CI
> builds these Linux/OSX Clang/GCC jobs come from the build matrix,
> therefore the jobname is not visible on the Travis CI web interface or
> API, only in the build logs. There are some pages on Azure Pipelines
> that do show the jobname (and some that could, but hide it instead),
> but it's just too convoluted (or sometimes even impossible, well, for
> me anyway) to get there.
>
> And if the requested Python binary can't be found, which will
> eventually happen with 'python2', then the non-zero exit code of
> 'which' will abort the build, no matter how the job is called.
I am mostly worried about contributors whose PRs break for "magic"
reasons. If it is not clear where the difference between `linux-gcc` and
`linux-clang` lies, that can cause unintended frustration, and I do not
want to cause that.
Ciao,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-25 0:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-22 22:18 What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2020, #04; Wed, 22) Junio C Hamano
2020-01-22 22:37 ` Elijah Newren
2020-01-22 22:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-01-22 23:53 ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-01-23 6:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-01-23 12:11 ` yz/p4-py3, was " Johannes Schindelin
2020-01-23 18:27 ` Yang Zhao
2020-01-27 12:55 ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-01-23 14:16 ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-01-23 17:56 ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-01-23 20:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-01-24 17:45 ` Yang Zhao
2020-01-25 0:13 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-01-25 8:31 ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-01-26 9:21 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-01-23 21:39 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-01-24 12:02 ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-01-25 0:35 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2020-02-05 21:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-02-06 0:27 ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-02-06 8:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-02-06 9:06 ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-02-06 11:45 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-01-23 11:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-01-23 4:29 ` Denton Liu
2020-01-23 6:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-01-23 16:54 ` Christian Couder
2020-01-23 20:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-01-26 20:07 ` Denton Liu
2020-01-27 18:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-01-27 20:26 ` [PATCH] .mailmap: fix erroneous authorship for Derrick Stolee Denton Liu
2020-01-28 17:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-01-29 8:59 ` What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2020, #04; Wed, 22) Denton Liu
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