On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, David Nadlinger wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:06 AM, Walter Bright <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 7/24/2012 3:17 PM, David Nadlinger wrote: > >> Nevertheless, providing nightly snapshots for users to download would > >> be really helpful for users who don't want to go through the hassles > >> of building DMD/druntime/Phobos on their own, but still want to test > >> new features or check for regressions. Several (most?) high-profile > >> open source projects do this. > > > > > > Please create a pull request for this! > > Unfortunately, this is not easy to do, as Brad's tester is written in > a proprietary scripting language? > > David
Bash isn't particularly proprietary. The web pages are, but that's less relevant. However, I strongly object to propagating the one-big-zip model and really wish we had per-platform output. Let's do THAT and make everyone happier. Also, I have concerns about the storage and bandwidth costs of shipping the build output around. It's just not practical for pull build, but probably is for master builds. If someone wants to get make targets added to (or fixed to be more generically usable) the various repositories to do the packaging, I'm all for adding it to the tester, including a test of the resulting package to make sure its usable. NOTE: the install needs to stay under the build root, and NOT go to /usr/... or /opt/... or anywhere else. My 2 cents, Brad _______________________________________________ dmd-beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-beta
