On 09.01.2013 07:32, Miha Vitorovic wrote: > On 8.1.2013 21:28, Ben Reser wrote: >> I think flat out the problem is that building on Windows is just a >> pain. I remember it took me several days to get a working build >> environment so I could be the last signature on 1.6.19. Unfortunately >> I can't be the last vote on the more recent releases because I've been >> the RM. >> >> There are several possible solutions to this problem. >> >> 1) We could lower the votes required for Windows. It seems like we... >> >> 2) I could stop RM'ing. That throws another person in the pool of... >> >> 3) WANdisco has non-committers building and testing the release... >> >> 4) One of the major problems with building Subversion on Windows is... >> >> 5) We could rewrite the build system to use something like CMake in... >> >> I expect the decision we make will be some combination of the above, >> not just one of these choices. > 6) You could create a VM appliance (with a dedicated maintainer), that > anyone (of the testers) could download and know it contains everything > necessary to build Subversion and run the tests. Unless the point of > providing the signatures is making sure that Subversion builds on a > variety Windows systems...
We talked about that a couple days ago, but the problem is that a Windows VM requires a Windows OS license for every user of that VM. That's not something we can provide or hack around (well ... we could hack around it, but it would be a really bad idea). -- Brane -- Branko Čibej Director of Subversion | WANdisco | www.wandisco.com
