Testing with nearly all packages in code.dlang.org

[Andrea Fontana]

On Tuesday, 19 September 2023 at 21:37:32 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
> In the spirit of avoiding any further breakage, I wrote a 
> little D script to get a list of all dub packages that still 
> build since projects get stale. It took ~44min on my laptop 
> using 20 threads to try and build all 2381 (as of yesterday) 
> dub packages. This included downloading all of them, I did an 
> `rm -rf ~/.dub/packages` just before.
>
> 1362 of them returned 0 for `dub build`, or about 57%. It's 
> probably a good idea to actually do `dub build 
> --build=unittest` since that'll include more D code.
>
> I don't know if some of them fail because they need custom 
> build/CI; I think it's safe to ignore them even if that's the 
> case, since a dub package needs to just build with dub.
>
> The list and the code is at 
> https://github.com/atilaneves/all-dub-packages.

What if some of them contain malicious code in the pre-build 
phase or in unit tests? I wouldn't run that massive 
indiscriminate build :)

Andrea