On 08/08/2014 07:21 AM, Alexander Kjeldaas wrote: > Microsoft has free VMs for testing purposes. It expires after 90 days and > the only relevant limitation that i see is that it's not licensed for a > "live operating environment". > > That might or might not exclude Travis, but scripting a test that > developers can run personally should be allowed. > > https://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools > > Alexander
This seems to be a VM dedicated for running Internet Explorer, is it actually a fully-featured environment? The site doesn't show much info. > On Aug 8, 2014 5:14 AM, "Mateusz Kowalczyk" <fuuze...@fuuzetsu.co.uk> wrote: > >> On 07/16/2014 12:55 AM, Joachim Breitner wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I feel sorry for Simon always repeatedly stuck with an unbuildable tree, >>> and an idea crossed my mind: Can we build¹ GHC under Wine? If so, is it >>> likely to catch the kind of problems that Simon is getting? If so, maybe >>> it runs fast enough to be also tested by travis on every commit? >>> >>> (This mail is to find out if people have tried it before. If not, I’ll >>> give it a quick shot.) >>> >>> Greetings, >>> Joachim >>> >>> ¹ we surely can use it: >> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC_under_Wine >>> >>> >> >> Perhaps this is a bit off-tangent but few months ago there were some >> commits landing to the nix package manager which allow you to run tests >> in a Windows VM. It was created to run tests for things like >> cross-compiled packages but it probably could be adapted. >> >> If you don't mind actually installing Windows (in a VM) and have nix >> already/plan on using it then that might be a more preferable workflow: >> create a nix expression that builds a validates GHC in the VM and spits >> out the result. >> >> It's just something I thought I should mention in case anyone was >> interested. >> >> -- >> Mateusz K. >> _______________________________________________ >> ghc-devs mailing list >> ghc-devs@haskell.org >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >> > -- Mateusz K. _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs