Re: [ros-dev] A few ideas requiring discussion

[WaxDragon]

On 12/13/06, Aleksey Bragin <aleksey(a)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