setup-dmd GitHub action

kinke noone at nowhere.com
Thu Sep 12 22:00:11 UTC 2019


On Thursday, 12 September 2019 at 20:46:42 UTC, Dennis wrote:
> On Thursday, 12 September 2019 at 19:07:30 UTC, WebFreak001 
> wrote:
>> ...
>
> So I've seen GitHub actions pop-up suddenly but I can't figure 
> out what it is.
> Googling it gives me some high-level generic description about 
> "workflow automation" but I don't see what concrete problem 
> it's trying to solve. Can anyone please explain what's in it 
> for the hobbyist D coder?
>
> Also I've seen some articles about it dating back to 2018, but 
> apparently you can only recently sign up for the beta.

Seems like a tighter integration of Azure Pipelines (somewhat 
adapted) into GitHub, an obvious move by Microsoft to foster 
their position. So Windows/Linux/macOS on x86_64 (Azure) hosts, 
max. 6 hours runtime per job, max 20 jobs in parallel (Azure: 10).


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