setup a continously running salmonella instance for the "prerelease" chicken-core branch

[felix]

It would be very helpful to have salmonella running on the prerelease branch (basically just like what exists for master now). That way last-minute changes to a prepared release will be fully checked.

We could have either a separately running instance or just switch between master and prerelease in the currently running instance on call-cc.org.

This is not really critical. I assign it to you mario, but feel free to reassign it back to me, if you can't find the time.

[mario]

That's totally fine, Felix. I'm gonna work on that.

Maybe this salmonella instance can be run without setting the temporary egg repo empty for each egg, so we can speed up its runtime significantly (at the cost of not catching dependencies problems among eggs, but that's checked by the master salmonella and such problems can hardly be attributed to the compiler).

[felix]

Replying to mario:

Maybe this salmonella instance can be run without setting the temporary egg repo empty for each egg, so we can speed up its runtime significantly (at the cost of not catching dependencies problems among eggs, but that's checked by the master salmonella and such problems can hardly be attributed to the compiler).

Sure, that'll be enough.

[mario]

The salmonella reports on the prerelease branch are available at http://tests.call-cc.org/prerelease/

PS: The current prerelease code is quite old. "make check" is failing due to an issue that, IIRC, is fixed on master already.

[felix]

Replying to mario:

The salmonella reports on the prerelease branch are available at http://tests.call-cc.org/prerelease/

PS: The current prerelease code is quite old. "make check" is failing due to an issue that, IIRC, is fixed on master already.

Excellent: I'll update this branch to match the latest snapshot.