On Thursday, 25 October 2012 at 19:10:39 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
I've recently got some experience of a project called Travis
CI. As the title says it's a CI, Continuous Integration testing
server for open source projects. They host all the building and
testing, you just add a YAML configuration file and a github
hook and then it can build and run your tests. It can also test
pull requests.
Yes, Travis is indeed a great service. We use it for LDC CI and
pull request testing (sadly, it is x86_32 only right now, but
apparently the platform is supposed to be moved to 64 bit
machines soon).
This Travis started out as a build server for Ruby, where it's
wildly used. Ruby on Rails among other projects are using it.
It also supports other languages like C, C++, Scala, Go and
many others. The only problem is that it doesn't support D and
it only supports Linux.
Well, »it doesn't support D« is true in that there is no
built-in support for it, but you are allowed to install arbitrary
software on the system as part of your installation scripts (for
example, the LDC pre-build hooks install LLVM and libconfig++).
The most straightforward way would be to set up an Ubuntu PPA
containing the DMD/GDC/LDC versions you need. But it would
probably be a wise idea to coordinate with the Travis guys
anyway, to avoid that suddenly some two hundred D projects all
pull in the same packages from a server not in the Travis
network…
Unfortunately I haven't got any answers yet. Maybe we can push
this somehow.
I'd try to approach the Travis people in #travis on FreeNode –
from my experience, they are quite responsive there. Also note
that all of Travis is open source, so I'm sure the process would
be much quicker if there was an actual patch adding D support to
discuss.
David
