I can build and validate in about an hour myself using 9 jobs on a core i7. If I revert the change in the testsuite preventing parallel runs for Windows.
Tamar On Mon, Jul 4, 2016, 12:26 Ben Gamari <b...@well-typed.com> wrote: > "Boespflug, Mathieu" <m...@tweag.io> writes: > > > On 4 July 2016 at 12:36, Ben Gamari <b...@well-typed.com> wrote: > >> Simon Marlow <marlo...@gmail.com> writes: > >> > >>> I will fix it, sorry about this. Unfortunately I can't really add a > >>> Windows validate into my workflow because it would mean rebooting my > laptop > >>> into Windows and not doing anything else for several hours. We need > some > >>> CI support for Windows - Ben/Austin any thoughts on this? > >>> > >> I agree; this would be great. I have a Windows machine which I'd be > >> happy setup as a builder although I'm afraid it's behind NAT, so > >> integration with Harbormaster may require some tunneling. > > > > Just a suggestion - the easiest and most reliable would probably be to > > simply use Appveyor for this. They offer a hosted and fully managed CI > > service very similar to Travis CI - only difference being it runs > > tests on Windows boxes. And just like Travis CI, it's free! > > > > The advantage of a hosted CI service is that no one except Appveyor > > need to worry about keeping the build bot highly available. > > > > Only downside is their machines in the free tier can be a bit slow. > > But that's a problem that can be iterated on as the need arises. > > > I've noticed that several of the core libraries rely on Appveyor with > good results. However, I had assumed that GHC would exceed the maximum > build time of their free tier since the build takes a few hours on my > Windows box. It seems that Appveyor has a one-hour build duration limit, > similar to Travis. > > Cheers, > > - Ben > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >
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