Re: Build farm(er)

2010-09-30 Thread Bruno Medeiros
On 06/08/2010 02:59, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: 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

Re: Build farm(er)

2010-08-10 Thread Byron Heads
On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:59:28 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: 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 t

Re: Build farm(er)

2010-08-07 Thread Lionello Lunesu
On 2010-08-06 5:44, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 08/06/2010 12:00 AM, BCS wrote: 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 thin

Re: Build farm(er)

2010-08-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 08/07/2010 01:40 AM, Tomek Sowiński wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu napisał: In terms of machines, if anyone could volunteer ssh accounts to stable machines (e.g. preferably not laptops and not connected via dynamic IP, though the latter is satisfactorily fixed by dyndns.org), please chime in!

Re: Build farm(er)

2010-08-07 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2010-08-06 23:10, sybrandy wrote: I can't help with hardware, but if you want to virtualize some of your operating systems, VirtualBox is very nice and freely available. Also, and this is just me throwing out something new, you could write some small Erlang programs that are linked to each oth

Re: Build farm(er)

2010-08-06 Thread Tomek Sowiński
Andrei Alexandrescu napisał: > In terms of machines, if anyone could volunteer ssh accounts to stable > machines (e.g. preferably not laptops and not connected via dynamic IP, > though the latter is satisfactorily fixed by dyndns.org), please chime in! It would be a shame to leave out laptops. Id

Re: Build farm(er)

2010-08-06 Thread Walter Bright
Tomek Sowiński wrote: 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 agree. We have a constant problem with fixes on one platform breakin

Re: Build farm(er)

2010-08-06 Thread sybrandy
I can't help with hardware, but if you want to virtualize some of your operating systems, VirtualBox is very nice and freely available. Also, and this is just me throwing out something new, you could write some small Erlang programs that are linked to each other to manage the distribution. To

Re: Build farm(er)

2010-08-06 Thread SK
Hello Andrei, On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > and everything is built from source all the way to uploading the installers > for all OSs to the website and updating html files accordingly. > How about CDash? http://www.cdash.org/cdash/project/about.html CMake+CTest+CD

Re: Build farm(er)

2010-08-06 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
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 buil

Re: Build farm(er)

2010-08-06 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
BCS wrote: Hello Andrei, On 08/06/2010 12:00 AM, BCS wrote: 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 someth

Re: Build farm(er)

2010-08-06 Thread Tomek Sowiński
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

Re: Build farm(er)

2010-08-06 Thread BCS
Hello Andrei, On 08/06/2010 12:00 AM, BCS wrote: 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

Re: Build farm(er)

2010-08-06 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2010-08-06 03:59, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: 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

Re: Build farm(er)

2010-08-06 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 08/06/2010 12:00 AM, BCS wrote: 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 regre

Re: Build farm(er)

2010-08-05 Thread BCS
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

Build farm(er)

2010-08-05 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
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.