On 8/29/12 11:52 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >> Why does this need to be tied into the build farm? Someone can surely
>> set up a script that just runs the docs build at every check-in, like it
>> used to work. What's being proposed now just sounds like a lot of
>> complication for little or no actual gain -- net loss in fact.
>
> It doesn't just build the docs. It makes the dist snapshots too.
Thus making the turnaround time on a docs build even slower ... ?
> And the old script often broke badly, IIRC.
The script broke on occasion, but the main problem was that it wasn't
monitored. Which is something that could have been fixed.
> The current setup doesn't install
> anything if the build fails, which is a distinct improvement.
You mean it doesn't build the docs if the code build fails? Would that
really be an improvement?