Travis-CI support for D

[Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 12/11/2014 3:16 AM, Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Thursday, 11 December 2014 at 07:40:14 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic via
> Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>> On 12/11/14, Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
>> <digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>> Glad to announce that D support on Travis-CI was launched today.
>>>
>>> http://blog.travis-ci.com/2014-12-10-community-driven-language-support-comes-to-travis-ci/
>>>
>>
>> Awesome!!
>>
>> Btw, I've noticed this command in the log file of a Travis run:
>> $ curl http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2014/dmd.2.066.1.linux.zip
>>> ~/dmd.zip
>>
>> It seems a bit of a waste of bandwidth to re-download the release for
>> each run?
>
> Indeed, and we'll have to see how that works. Easiest solution would be
> to add a caching proxy on either side (incapsula?). We could also come
> up with some chef recipes to preinstall a bunch of compilers on certain
> worker boxes.

For the last 30 days, travis represents about 2.5% of all downloads (1k 
of 40k).  So, not horrible, but could also be a whole lot less (down 
from 1k to 74 based on January's data) if it were cached on each host.