From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 22 19:58:29 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 26B68106566C for ; Sat, 22 May 2010 19:58:29 +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 B51428FC19 for ; Sat, 22 May 2010 19:58:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk11 with SMTP id 11so3701540qyk.13 for ; Sat, 22 May 2010 12:58:28 -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=ecDQEQZNvSnXkkPwR4/quqKsDea+znirYEGkO5vm74E=; b=COj9paR1cxO1tSVn7Q5OZeYgbXjfEzQXwd8JVIq/XA/jYxdM+rXN1hZH4/QjvMCQ/e H8BC0VFJnr0wMcTD/j5Zrh+ACDyGQgj7a8X2I9cdvtsBo6Mq8Ift68/uKB0EbOSy34Ht Qs+7bLkzx6iYWLoBh3YVNZMTrMen6lx7HwHPU= 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=pDtYrlPr/czym1MCnJVOmBGfAYzq97Ffj3pMBktSP6S6U72QN1xzXlzDYHtoY/DPg6 Y+xMcXx4WCXPlA5IPeNDg8KnA5ScxXf7F+EwC62FysNAIlnXBAe/ia4cWTfOpPTmUs2r c00+BjExO7xlJkRRABLaSWbVRpkG/xLJ1c1YM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.35.196 with SMTP id q4mr2170177qad.348.1274558307583; Sat, 22 May 2010 12:58:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.190.83 with HTTP; Sat, 22 May 2010 12:58:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4BF7C5EC.20500@ispras.ru> <20100522123006.GS83316@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <4BF7D82A.40507@ispras.ru> Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 12:58:27 -0700 Message-ID: From: Garrett Cooper To: Andrey Ponomarenko Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Kostik Belousov , 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 19:58:29 -0000 On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: >> On 05/22/2010 04:30 PM, Kostik Belousov wrote: >>> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 03:54:20PM +0400, 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. >>>> >>> WOW. Can you, please, share the setup of the tracker ? >>> >> >> The tool itself is very young and is not well documented yet. Although >> the first version has been recently released under dual GNU GPL and LGPL >> licenses: >> http://ispras.linuxfoundation.org/index.php/Upstream_Tracker >> We are not recommended to use this version of the tool by yourself. Very >> soon we will release 1.1 version containing a lot of bug fixes and new >> features. > > Unfortunately this could only be added to the base system as a port > today as it depends on perl (something that was tossed from the base > system many moons ago because of cross-building issues). I'll poke > around at the software and port it to FreeBSD because it looks > interesting though and does provide a relatively simple interface for > digesting test results. There are several portability issues with the perl scripts that should be resolved for this to be usable outside of Linux. I'll file bugs for these bits. >>> It would be amazingly interesting if you added FreeBSD base system >>> libraries to the tracker. >> >> Provide, please, the list of necessary libraries. >> >>> It would be extremely interesting and >>> useful for us to see changes among releases and tips of the >>> stable and head branches. Thanks, -Garrett