On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 12:21:25AM -0600, Kevin Locke wrote: > Hi David, > > Thank you for taking the time to review these patches, especially for a > platform that you don't have a strong stake in. I really appreciate it. > > On 09/19/2016 10:48 PM, David Gibson wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 06:51:57PM -0600, Kevin Locke wrote: > > > This patch series adds support for building configurator with Microsoft > > > Visual C++ and running it on Windows. The motivation is to add > > > sufficient support for Windows to allow using header-only modules > > > with minimal hassle. For me, this patch series is sufficient, so I > > > don't have any further plans for changes to other files or the build > > > system at the moment. > > > > First, thanks for this. ccan isn't supposed to be platform specific, > > but it kind of is at the moment, simply because most of the > > contributions have been from Linux developers. I'm really happy to > > see some work to make it useful on different platforms. > > > > Second, because I'm not and have never been a Windows dev, my ability > > to review these is limited - so I'm inclined to apply anything that > > doesn't break builds on Linux / POSIX. > > > > Third, because most of the main ccan contributors are not Windows > > devs, I'm a bit worried about bitrot. If you can think of any way of > > making some kind of automated smoke test form builds on Windows, that > > would be terrific. Otherwise, I guess we'll just hope for the best. > > I think that's a very legitimate concern. I'm not a frequent Windows > developer myself, but had a need for a current project. I've tried to > minimize the amount of Windows-specific code, with good results I think, but > that's obviously not much of a guarantee that it won't rot or subtly break > on Windows going forward. > > I've seen appveyor.com used quite often for Windows CI, and it is free for > FOSS projects. I'd be happy to work up some basic smoke tests if it seems > like that might be useful and not too much of a maintenance burden. Let me > know what you think.
Sounds good to me.
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