Tomek Sowiński wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu napisał:
Hello,
I was talking yesterday with Walter and Brad about enacting a build farm
and the build master who would tend to it.
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!
An idea: could the assembled farm be reused to build other D projects? Being able to easily run thorough unittests on a variety of
machines would be a massive boost in quality of D's software ecosystem.
I think that's a great idea. We only need the appropriate people power
and computer power. In an ideal world dsource.org would grow to provide
that, but my perception is that Brad A. can only put this much time into
it (which is a lot btw).
Andrei
