Source Server, back on trunk
October 5th, 2009
Some time ago, Lukas Blakk implemented support for a source server on our Windows builds as a class project in Dave Humphrey‘s class at Seneca College. Of course, soon after that we switched our main VCS from CVS to Mercurial, which broke all of her hard work. Thankfully, we got another one of Dave’s students, Jesse Valianes, to fix things to make it work with Mercurial. We landed his patch, but as it turns out we never enabled a setting on our build machines to make it actually work. However, when we finally tried to do so, I found out that another patch we had landed in the interim had broken things. I finally landed a fix for that, and we flipped it back on, and so today’s trunk build is source-enabled again.
If you have no idea what any of this means, it means you can download a Windows nightly build, attach a debugger, have it download the debug symbols automatically from our symbol server, and the debugger will download the matching source for you automatically.
I hope to get this backported to our 1.9.2 and 1.9.1 branches ASAP, so that our 3.5.x and 3.6 release builds will be similarly debuggable.