From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-02-01T04:03:46+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] tinderbox 1.0.0 Released

On Jan 31, 2007, at 03:10, Bil Kleb wrote:
> Eric Hodel wrote:
>> http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/tinderbox
>> Tinderbox tests projects and tries to make them break by running  
>> them on as
>> many different platforms as possible.
>
> Five things:
>
>  1) Thank you; A most excellent contribution!

Its the most depressing Ruby project I've ever written.

>  2) A pie chart!?  Tufte would be sad.

The pie chart makes me sad too, but for different reasons.

>  3) How are projects selected to be tested?  I.e., do I submit mine,
>     are they automatically added?  (I'm too dense to find this info
>     on http://firebrigade.seattlerb.org or http:// 
> seattlerb.rubyforge.org/tinderbox/.)

If its in the gem index, tinderbox tries to test it.

>  4) What's with the "000 act aed asl ben" pagination headers/footers
>     for the project listings?

Encyclopedic pagination, so you know roughly where you're jumping  
too.  (But search is faster, and it kinda breaks down when you get to  
the 'ruby*' projects.)

>  5) Probably been reported before and not related
>     to Tinderbox, but why doesn't Rubygems understand
>     repeated dependencies?

The Install is set for an overhaul in RubyGems 0.9.2.  It takes a  
recursive approach to installing dependencies, so may have these  
kinds of issues.