1241712 - Artifact builds should warn when the used artifacts are many changesets behind your current changeset

Status: NEW

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

I didn't realise that artifacts came from fx-team so I was building a recent changeset from inbound which was only able to get artifacts that were about 12 hours old. This inevitably meant there was some binary compatibility problems causing surprising test failures.

It would be good if for whatever reason the used artifacts are very old we displayed a warning at the end of the build. Something like "The build is complete but note the binaries are 20 changesets out of date and so you may experience problems".

You could also use hg status to spot how many .cpp and .idl files changed and warn with those too.

Comment 1

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

I think this was brought up in another bug. If not, people are definitely aware of it.