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Building is not such a big achievement, what's more interesting is to know whether it actually works? As in, was there extensive testing to prove there are no

Building is not such a big achievement, what's more interesting is to know whether it actually works? As in, was there extensive testing to prove there are no regressions compared to the glibc version?

ahgamut 3y ago
Right now I use the gcc, git, vim, and ninja APE binaries on my local system for daily work, and so far I have seen no visible regressions. I agree with you though -- an extensive testing setup will reveal more things for improvement, be it in my patch or in the libc itself. At the moment I only have direct access to Debian 11/Fedora 35/FreeBSD 13, but I expect we will soon find a nice way to run tests across the different operating systems automatically. One of my ideas was to setup a separate drive or folder with all the executables, accessible from different operating systems/VMs, and then run the tests from each. What do you think?
- gdprrrr 3y ago
  I think github actions has windows images
- mgaunard 3y ago
  I don't know enough about APE or cosmo to know how risky the changes are. Here apparently the changes are mostly related to error handling, and I guess that's not something that's very well tested with normal usage.