14.03.2012, 04:29, "Luís Oliveira" <luismbo@gmail.com>:
I think it's OK to ask user to compile the library manually.
Sure, but it's not suitable for a buildbot or something along those lines. I assume that at some point test results for cl-test-grid will be provided by automated runs?
In ideal world build bot will work fully automatically. But if some library test suite is not fully automated. I though about approach, when by default, the contributor makes zero effort - runs a simple command. But if he is willing to help more, we may inform him what manual preparations are possible to test more libraries. In the default mode these not-automated libraries just have status :no-resource. Probably the extreme example of a library which can not be fully automated, is cl-sql. It's test sute needs running SQL servers (for all the backends - postgre, oracle, ect).
I've registered this issue in the bug tracker...
I can't find it on launchpad... Idea - maybe just commiting precompiled .dll binary would be a solution?