Getting ready for 2.061

[John Colvin]

On Monday, 24 December 2012 at 13:05:08 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2012-12-24 13:52, Rory McGuire wrote:
>> What kind of computers would we need to do these tests?
>> I have some spare resources for one or two VPS.
>
> I have no idea how many are need to run tests on all branches. 
> Brad would know this better.
>
> What usually is a problem is Mac OS X. Since you're only 
> allowed to run it on Apple computers (if you want to follow the 
> EULA) and Mac users is a minority here.
>
>> Perhaps others do too.
>
> People have already donated computers/shells to run the test 
> suite as we do now.
>
> I'm wondering if it would be a good idea to start using Travis 
> CI. Currently it only supports Linux but they're working on 
> adding Mac OS X and Windows.

If people aren't fussy about the EULA (which is apparently not 
valid in the EU anyway) then I could probably set up os x on a 
machine at university that could be left on indefinitely as a 
test machine. I wouldn't be able to do anything on that until 
mid-january though.