Build farm(er)

[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 be a good candidate for maintaining the whole things but I'd be willing 
to help.
 
> 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 that contains the most recent
> successful build. At the end of the day I want us to get to the point
> where I type:
> 
> % make world
> 
> and everything is built from source all the way to uploading the
> installers for all OSs to the website and updating html files
> accordingly.
> 
> Walter and I agreed that wine should be adequate for building and
> testing on Windows, which is helpful because we can use the Unix
> command line tools throughout.
> 
> The build master will act as a coordinator of check ins, reviews,
> builds, test harnesses, and probably more. Walter is currently
> handling these roles, and he would be relieved to pass them on to
> someone reliable.
> 
> Any ideas, proposals, contributions and candidates are welcome!
> 
> Andrei
> 
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