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Odd interface stuff in current/recent dev builds
iPodVT:
--- Quote from: iPodVT on November 25, 2024, 05:09:53 PM ---Question: are there dev builds older than 14 days that I can access/download or would I have to build them myself from source code? At this time I'm specifically interested in those between the beginning of October and now. Thanks.
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The reason I want access to those dev builds older than 14 days (or more specifically from Sept 9 through Oct 29) is that I have an ipod6g currently running f7db73097a-240909 that doesn't exhibit the problem with the No/Yes menus. And I first noticed and reported the No/Yes menu bug with an ipod6g that was running 914a56f34c-241029 [https://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,55041.0.html]. So using a binary-search-type process of elimination with dev builds from the earlier to the later, it should only take me a handful or so of tries to find the dev build in which the bug first appeared. That could lead us to the change(s) that caused the bug.
speachy:
--- Quote from: iPodVT on November 25, 2024, 11:52:41 PM ---The reason I want access to those dev builds older than 14 days (or more specifically from Sept 9 through Oct 29) is that I have an ipod6g currently running f7db73097a-240909 that doesn't exhibit the problem with the No/Yes menus. And I first noticed and reported the No/Yes menu bug with an ipod6g that was running 914a56f34c-241029 [https://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,55041.0.html]. So using a binary-search-type process of elimination with dev builds from the earlier to the later, it should only take me a handful or so of tries to find the dev build in which the bug first appeared. That could lead us to the change(s) that caused the bug.
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Oh, I know exactly _what_ change introduced the problem; it was part of a long series of patches to make it possible to use more modern ATA drivers (and eventually, exFAT). The question was _why_ it broke; the symptoms don't make sense given the actual code.
As for the reason for not keeping builds older than 2 weeks, that's quite simple -- each set of daily build artifacts takes up about 5.3GB, and storage gets expensive fast.
There's a reasonable argument to be made to staggering things a litle (eg daily builds for a week, then weekly, then monthly) but that needs to be scripted robustly, and the retention timeframe is still going to be fairly short due to trying to keep the disk space in check. The "proper" solution is more frequent releases but bugs like this (iie regressions caused from trying to deal with ongoing joy of needing to deal with folks modding two-decade-old hardware) need to be solved first.
Meanwhile. Please try the latest dev buiild. It includes a change for a corner case that I'd missed when doing the ata/bigsector refactoring.
https://build.rockbox.org/data/rockbox-ipod6g.zip
EDIT: pressed send to soon, added description of the link.
iPodVT:
--- Quote from: speachy on November 26, 2024, 09:53:12 AM ---As for the reason for not keeping builds older than 2 weeks, that's quite simple -- each set of daily build artifacts takes up about 5.3GB, and storage gets expensive fast.
Meanwhile. Please try the latest dev buiild. It includes a change for a corner case that I'd missed when doing the ata/bigsector refactoring.
https://build.rockbox.org/data/rockbox-ipod6g.zip
EDIT: pressed send to soon, added description of the link.
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Re the storage requirements of archiving older dev builds: Right - of course. I tend to forget that there are many different makes and models of Rockboxed DAPs other than the one that I am holding in my hand in any given moment.
I tried the exp build you posted above (before your edit to the build's description) and "Yes" remained "Yes" in the No/Yes menu. I didn't find a 'Dump log file' item in the Debug menu so I'm guessing you are not looking for a log file with this one.
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