On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Adam Barth <abarth@webkit.org> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Joe Mason<joe.mason@torchmobile.com> wrote:
> Shouldn't buildbots always be doing a from-scratch build to ensure a clean
> environment anyway?

My experience is that most buildbots do incremental builds.
Minimizing cycle time is key to making the buildbot useful.

Plus, if buildbots never did incremental builds, problems like this one would be much harder to notice, making life difficult on developers (who certainly do incremental builds).

PK