[LLVMdev] Reminder: NewNIghtlyTest.pl

[Reid Spencer]

On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 14:07 -0700, Chris Lattner wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Reid Spencer wrote:
> > This is a reminder that the script will change so that tonight's nightly
> > test will use the hybrid svn/cvs version. This requires the Date::Parse
> > perl module. If you haven't installed it yet, please do so before the
> > next run of your nightly test.
> 
> Hi Reid,
> 
> We didn't have a chance to talk about this much when this came up, but why 
> do you need this module?  It's not commonly installed on all systems, so 
> this is another dependency people have to satisfy to be able to run the 
> nightly tester.  Is there any way to avoid this?

Only two things I can think of:

1. Forgo having "what changed" information in the nightly test
2. Ask Anton to write the date parsing without using Date::Parse and do
   the parsing manually.

Personally I don't think #1 is viable. It is good to know what changed
each day. 

Reid.

> 
> -Chris
>