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 >
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Reid Spencer wrote:>> 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.I agree. Is the date in a fixed format? wouldn't a simple regex do the trick? -Chris -- http://nondot.org/sabre/ http://llvm.org/
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 14:47 -0700, Chris Lattner wrote:> On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Reid Spencer wrote: > >> 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. > > I agree. Is the date in a fixed format? wouldn't a simple regex do the > trick?You're asking the wrong person. Anton did this part. Anton?> > -Chris >