If you test against head you will probably get the best warnings. I
assume you want to find out about problems before the release goes
out, to prepare for the release? (The release branch is a relatively
short-lived thing that exists only in the run up to a release.)

Robby

On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Gustavo Massaccesi <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have setup a copy of one little-schemer [1] project, with some
> tweaks to runs the test in travis [2]. The 6.2 version had a bug that
> broke their code, that was fixed in 6.2.1 [3]. So I thought it would
> be nice to test it to be sure that the new version doesn't breaks
> their code. (This looks easier than running it in a VM each time.)
>
> I only added a few minimal changes in the "travis" branch (the master
> branch is unchanged). I only test a few directories, because I think
> the other are work in progress. To run the HEAD version, I had to
> install the unstable-debug-lib package, because it has some functions
> that were moved from the unstable collection.
>
> In order to run the tests, I'm using the travis-racket project [4]. I
> run the tests in the 6.1.1 and 6.2.1 and HEAD version of racket.
>
> My problem is that I wanted to add a test for the "release" version of
> racket, but it's not available.
>
> The HEAD version is tested using the current snapshot at
> http://plt.eecs.northwestern.edu/snapshots/current/installers/racket-test-current-x86_64-linux-precise.sh
>
> But the latest (old) "release" version is
> http://pre-release.racket-lang.org/installers/racket-minimal-6.2.0.900-x86_64-linux-ubuntu-precise.sh
>
> One problem is that it has the version number in the URL, I found no
> link for the "current" version, so it's difficult to add it to
> travis-racket.
>
> Another more abstract problem is that I'm not sure what is the right
> "current" version of the release branch outside the release windows,
> ¿the last release version? ¿a copy of the HEAD version? ...
>
> Is it possible to add something like
> http://pre-release.racket-lang.org/installers/racket-minimal-current-x86_64-linux-ubuntu-precise.sh
> ?
>
> [1] https://github.com/SeaRbSg/little-schemer
> [2] https://github.com/gus-massa/little-schemer/tree/travis
> [3] 
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/racket-users/qXgkj4DwqyQ/ng2x-8RXQK4J
> [4] https://github.com/greghendershott/travis-racket
>
> Gustavo
>
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