On 03/03/2018 10:22 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2018-03-03 07:39, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
- Maybe there's a simple setting I've overlooked, but when a build job
fails on travis, the author does not get proactively notified. The
author only finds out next time they go into travis. (I've been
surprised many times to discover failed builds that had occured
several days ago, or more.)
You should get an email notification about failed builds [1] [2],
Weird. Never worked for me. Will have to check into that.
- A project author will still need to: 1. Actively notice new compiler
releases and 2. Manually update the .travis.yml files for each of
their projects. Certainly there's room for more automation here.
No. If you specify "dmd" (without any version) in the list of compilers
[5], it will build the latest version. For example, this build [3],
which ran 23 hours ago uses DMD 2.078.3, while this one [4], 29 days
ago, uses 2.078.2. As you can see on the commit in Travis CI, it's the
same commit.
No. That is only sufficient *temporarily*, that is, until the next time
the label "dmd" is updated to another new release once again. At *some*
point, .travis.yml will still need to be manually updated...
Scenario 1-2-3:
1. Suppose a library supports DMD v2.071.0 and up. Because of this,
.travis.yml includes:
- dmd # Ie, dmd-2.079.0, ATM
- dmd-2.079.0
- dmd-2.078.2
- dmd-2.078.1
- dmd-2.078.0
- dmd-2.077.1
- dmd-2.077.0
Summary: CI now tests 2.076.1 through 2.079.0.
2. Release of DMD 2.080.0 occurs. "dmd" now points to 2.080.0 (and
forget reproducibility: if 2.080.0 contains an unexpected regression
then using travis's "Restart Job" on the "dmd" job will break overall
reproducibility.)
Summary: CI now tests 2.076.1 through 2.080.0.
So far so good, right? Until...
3. Release of DMD 2.081.0 occurs. "dmd" now points to 2.081.0. Unless
.travis.yml has been manually updated, it still contains:
- dmd # Ie, dmd-2.081.0, now
# WTF?!?! dmd-2.080.0 is no longer being tested!!!!!!!!
- dmd-2.079.0
- dmd-2.078.2
- dmd-2.078.1
- dmd-2.078.0
- dmd-2.077.1
- dmd-2.077.0
Summary: CI *stops* testing dmd-2.080.0.
FAIL.
