Build Master: Scheduling II

[Martin Nowak]

On Tuesday, 3 December 2013 at 14:26:07 UTC, Andrew Edwards wrote:
> Tools currently included in the packages are as follows:

We need to discuss the list of included tools.
Some of them are only available as binaries, i.e. only Walter 
knows how to build them. Also DUMPOBJ and OBJ2ASM aren't needed 
on linux or OSX.
The tools strictly related to D are, dman, ddmangle and rdmd.

> This list, at the very least, should include DustMite but there 
> are some other tools included in the tools repo on github that 
> might belong here. (This will be considered for inclusion in 
> future releases and will have no effect on release 2.065)
>
> As I am not skilled at GitHub, I will be following the 
> instructions/guidelines exactly as outlined here:
>
> 	http://wiki.dlang.org/Development_and_Release_Process.

This does not reflect how we handle things currently.
It would be good to start from the current process (version 
branch + cherry-picking from master) and incrementally improve it 
towards what we want to achieve. The wiki depicts an idealistic 
process that requires a lot of awareness by every dev and doesn't 
map good onto the GitHub workflow.
>
> I am working on a MacMini running OS X v10.9. I have Ubuntu 
> 13.10 Server loaded in VirtualBox and will be using Jordi 
> Sayol's script to build packages for linux/Windows and Jacob 
> Carlborg script for OSX.
>
> Both of these scripts require an preexisting release zip and as 
> of this moment, I am unaware of the steps to create that file. 
> I will need some instructions on how to access and run the auto 
> tester if that's what generates the zip or, if it's already 
> automatically created, instructions on how to retrieve and 
> stage it for the build.

Only Walter knows how to build the zip.
Nick wrote a build script the produces a similar zip file,
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/installer/pull/24.
Maybe we can get that in shape for the next few releases.

In the mid-term we should replace all installer scripts that 
depend on the dmd2.zip with scripts that build a platform 
specific release from source.
Work is being done to add install targets to the Makefiles of 
each project.

I'm currently working on a spec file to build RPMs for Fedora.

>
> I will be setting up a tag on github today for the first beta 
> release of 2.065 (2.065-b1).
>
It would be helpful to post a short notice in advance on the 
dmd-beta mailing list so that the devs can coordinate their work 
accordingly.