On 1/16/2021 3:33 PM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
On Sat, 16 Jan 2021 at 20:22, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
Version 0.65-1 of moreutils has been uploaded and should be coming
soon to a distribution server near you.
In case anyone's interested or has thoughts:
As part of working on this release, I've been playing with GitHub's
automation tools. The entire build / test / package / release / upload
process was performed using free ephemeral GitHub-managed VMs. At
least in theory, this reduces the manual work for future releases to:
- Commit a version of the Cygport file with an updated version number.
- Create a tag and push that tag to GitHub
- Wait for the confirmation email to arrive
- Send the announcement email
This is obviously serving a similar purpose to the automated builds
that Scallywag provides; I'm not sure I'd have bothered with this
project had I not already been most of the way through it before I
spotted Scallywag existed. I suspect in theory Scallywag's access to
the Cygwin servers means it's potentially more powerful, but Scallywag
also comes with some general caveats ("at this stage, this is only
probably useful for verifying that BUILD_REQUIRES is correct"),
I assume you're quoting from https://cygwin.com/packaging/build.html. Scallywag
does have some limitations currently, but I think the statement you quoted is
obsolete. I often have Scallywag deploy my packages, as does Jon Turney.
The limitations I've bumped into are:
1. Scallywag will time out after an hour on each arch.
2. Several of my packages fail to build on x86 because of gcc crashes.
I think these limitations are outweighed by the fact that a Scallywag build is
automatically triggered by a push to an official source repo
(https://cygwin.com/packaging/repos.html). All maintainers can use this without
any special setup.
Ken
