Hello Andrei,
Hello,
I was talking yesterday with Walter and Brad about enacting a build
farm and the build master who would tend to it.
I'd be interested in partaking in such an endeavor. I was actually thinking
of doing something related (automatic regression testing). I don't think
I'd be a good candidate for maintaining the whole things but I'd be willing
to help.
The basic idea is to amass a number of remote machines (real and/or
virtual) running various OSs and use them for building and testing
recent commits of dmd and phobos. The website will have a
"cutting-edge" downloadable package that contains the most recent
successful build. At the end of the day I want us to get to the point
where I type:
% make world
and everything is built from source all the way to uploading the
installers for all OSs to the website and updating html files
accordingly.
Walter and I agreed that wine should be adequate for building and
testing on Windows, which is helpful because we can use the Unix
command line tools throughout.
The build master will act as a coordinator of check ins, reviews,
builds, test harnesses, and probably more. Walter is currently
handling these roles, and he would be relieved to pass them on to
someone reliable.
Any ideas, proposals, contributions and candidates are welcome!
Andrei
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