On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Éloi Rivard <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > I recently discovered continuous integration tools, and this is great! The > principle is to build a project and run some tests in different > environments at each commit (continuously). Each build is made from a clean > new distro image. You prepare some scripts to install the dependencies, and > some other scripts to build the project and run some other tests. Then you > can check the result somewhere, on a webpage for example. > A lot of services exist: Travis, Jenkins, Wercker etc. > > This is great to easily spot regressions on projects that can run on > several environments, such as denemo. > > I played a bit with Travis-ci and denemo: > https://travis-ci.org/azmeuk/denemo . It is synchronized with my github > account: https://github.com/azmeuk/denemo > For the moment the only test done is compilation, but it is very flexible > and it is possible to run some unit tests. Unfortunately, there is no test > suite in denemo :). However, a good non-regression test could be to launch > the program, check that commands are correctly launched for instance, and > close it just after. > > It works great with gcc and clang, and fails with mingw as I did not > prepared a good script to run. Jeremiah, if you want to help me there, you > are welcome :) Your gub fork fail to download ImageMagick. > > This sounds interesting. I am not sure how much I can help because I have very little time to work on this stuff. I could potentially install jenkins on denemo.org but I am not sure what the size requirements would be. I will give it a thought after checking out their website and perhaps some docs. That is unless the travis-ci thing is better suited to our needs. Jeremiah > The main drawback here is that Travis seem to only works with Github. > Other repositories are available if you pay. To use continuous integration > with denemo, it is either needed to use another service or copy each > revision into a github repository. Create a synchronized github clone of > the savannah repository can easily be done. Jenkins for instance is a free > ci system, but to use Jenkins, a dedicated host is needed. > > Well, I would like to know your thoughts about this. Do you like the idea > ? Which service do you prefer etc. Should I commit my Travis scripts to > master if someone is interested ? > > _______________________________________________ > Denemo-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/denemo-devel > >
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