drone.io for D

[Daniel Davidson]

On Friday, 27 September 2013 at 11:52:46 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> That is weird. I have used some common CI platforms like 
> Jenkins for D projects with no issues. Those are simply 
> irrelevant to actual language used.
>
> There must be something I am missing. Can you give quick 
> summary what drone.io is actually about? It is not clear from 
> their web site and I don't like to watch promo videos.

To be clear it is not important to me that it be drone.io - again 
that is my first exposure to CI. But for Dart I have a github 
repository containing a package with a bunch of tests that 
succeed. I go to drone and create a project. In the process it 
offers to select any of my github repositories and then you 
select the language. A small script drives the *test* which is 
usually just something that runs calls out to your test scripts. 
The language you select allows the build to know what to do after 
cloning your repository before calling your test. So for the case 
of dart, it shows the version of dart being used (which they keep 
as the latest version), then it does a *pub install* which 
installs all your Dart package requirements, then it runs your 
tests. If they pass your badge, which is a link to the status of 
the latest build is green.

Here is a sample badge for a json schema validator: 
https://drone.io/github.com/patefacio/json_schema/latest

The nice thing is, any time you commit to github a build is 
automatically kicked off and you get notification of 
success/failure.

I think the setup would work well with the right prereqs on the 
box and with dub replacing pub for installing dependencies. Maybe 
others are using something else - like Jenkins? It looks like 
julia has a fair amount of this done with Travis. So what 
does/should D users reach for?