Build farm(er)

[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 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

Continuous integration, pretty nice! I hope someone takes up on that task.

I myself want to learn and gain expertise (hopefully on the near future) 
on that general area: automated building and testing, across multiple 
platforms.

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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer