Auto Building / Testing (was: Re: Two weeks to feat..)

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > Well, it is a nice test template for people who aren't shell script
> > experts, and I have been in the habit of pushing stuff I use into /tools
> > so it is available for others.
>
> I know and I'm not happy about it. The PostgreSQL source tree isn't a
> repository of everyone's favorite shell scripts. There's an official
> method to build and test a PostgreSQL installation. If that is flawed or
> incomplete, then let's talk about it. But everyone pushing out their own
> little test methodology without further consideration is not going to help
> this discussion.

'K, its flawed and incomplete, let's talk about it :)

What I was looking for here was something I could add to cron on a machine
that would update the source, do a base configure (or give me the ability
to give extra options, as the case may be), build, install and test, and
report errors to me via email where applicable ...

The idea is that it could be something that ppl could have run nightly, in
the wee hours, and only when a problem occurs would they be informed so
taht they coudl either fix teh error (ie. out of space), or report it to
the list(s) ...