Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 12:58:27 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: Andrey Ponomarenko <susanin@ispras.ru> Cc: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new upstream tracker (linuxtesting.org) Message-ID: <AANLkTikI9VDcxFTltFxL-jiO6Dm_PLR5U4_A0fBbPVQ8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinCCqgcdWgLhDIKhxXAi8c6LsGSs6YXIbJZBx2M@mail.gmail.com> References: <4BF7C5EC.20500@ispras.ru> <20100522123006.GS83316@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <4BF7D82A.40507@ispras.ru> <AANLkTinCCqgcdWgLhDIKhxXAi8c6LsGSs6YXIbJZBx2M@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Andrey Ponomarenko <susanin@ispras.ru> 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
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