Thank you Carter. I think it's reasonable to incubate it on your Github profile for now until we are certain it is fully working again. Either way works though :)
Best, Alain > On Apr 1, 2014, at 17:45, Carter Schonwald <carter.schonw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > hey all, I just exported the igloo builder code from darcs to git, and put it > here https://github.com/cartazio/ghc-builder > would this be something worth adding to github.com/haskell ? (i can easily > add it if other folks it should be surfaced more visibly) > > >> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Páli Gábor János <pali.ga...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> 2014-04-01 14:03 GMT+02:00 Simon Peyton Jones <simo...@microsoft.com>: >> > Indeed, there is no reason not to use Ian et al's Builder stuff. It's one >> > of the >> > options. But it depends on a critical evaluation of what the advantages >> > and >> > disadvantages of different approaches are >> >> I found Ian's buildbot an appealing alternative as it does a full >> build, including testing, and uploads the resulting binaries to a >> common place where anybody can access them (but it can be configured >> to do almost anything). The builders may be configured individually >> from a single (Haskell-language) configuration file and they are run >> on various volunteer-supplied systems so it is also distributed. >> >> I use this to keep track of the status of the FreeBSD builds to make >> my work easier on building the releases and maintaining the associated >> ports in the FreeBSD Ports Collection, while offering regular >> developer snapshots for the users. This approach also allows me to >> control and maintain the builder environment too as it may require >> minor or major changes and fixes over time that I can do myself as a >> FreeBSD developer. In the past, there were cases where the build was >> failing due to bugs in the kernel or the userland, so this is not >> purely about GHC itself (unfortunately). >> >> In my humble opinon, there are merits for the Travis-based Continuous >> Integration, so as for the daily snapshot building on each supported >> platform. I do not care if it is not Haskell-based or it is hosted at >> a central place with individual Virtual Machines for each platform -- >> until I can keep doing what I have been doing for 4 years now. >> _______________________________________________ >> ghc-devs mailing list >> ghc-d...@haskell.org >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-d...@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
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