From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 22 19:30:28 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 506121065670 for ; Sat, 22 May 2010 19:30:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f181.google.com (mail-qy0-f181.google.com [209.85.221.181]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BD448FC0A for ; Sat, 22 May 2010 19:30:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk11 with SMTP id 11so3680599qyk.13 for ; Sat, 22 May 2010 12:30:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=IvoPwooOL22JIXkCaqfqfBCa12oIK4bhELVXdaqO70E=; b=q8MK8RJMEKXJGVrafrryqK7zZUf5m+N0bpLmUKigKbYDUzA9YQSb6uhKc8GGz9a+a8 c6cHmRU5JOo3jtoYAsw/8I6H74FJLcSuBmXANKaKeQKu0X4AzcExFCumGfNOBnXsr3cp Jk5KUKUanXtyUyUgsI7I0Bc7UvsDl8ZWty8GY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=vAZJInBIMmTcCfjRJ4El5uKuYkHYVSZPOglmcF4ZTENW8q3g1iYYiMNK8bHytUszRh CloYkwGUNQGuHGkzqMXamWR4JTsAmQ4nt/fq3mz0E+qIicbq4Swx5Ms30QtbopwHyr3n n3IrDXe7pvjuz7fs4bELkF+g8u5tn3y0y+T2k= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.104.106 with SMTP id n42mr2226297qao.31.1274556625738; Sat, 22 May 2010 12:30:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.190.83 with HTTP; Sat, 22 May 2010 12:30:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4BF7C5EC.20500@ispras.ru> References: <4BF7C5EC.20500@ispras.ru> Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 12:30:25 -0700 Message-ID: From: Garrett Cooper To: Andrey Ponomarenko Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new upstream tracker (linuxtesting.org) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 19:30:28 -0000 On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 4:54 AM, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: > Hello, I'm from ISPRAS and we have created an experimental system for > monitoring and analyzing of upstream libraries development. It may be > helpful for analyzing risks of updating one of the distribution > components (shared libraries). The web page of upstream-tracker is: > http://linuxtesting.org/upstream-tracker/ > It now includes ABI changes analysis and API shallow test results for > several versions of 60 popular open source libraries. > Any bugs or feature requests are welcome. Thanks. Just out of curiosity, is this a system for monitoring the 3rd party libraries that have been imported into our base system, or is it a generic tool for running testcases? I'll poke at it further, in the meantime, but it would be helpful if an expert could comment on the issue more :). I ask because Linux in and of itself doesn't really have a base system and everything's packages from the get-go, whereas *BSD has a userland with some 3rd party packages all wrapped into one base system. Also, how do you `test' the applications -- using the runtime tests produced in previous versions, or by just executing applications and observing whether or not the API calls pass or fail? Thanks! -Garrett