On 26/01/14 11:16, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi, > > Am Sonntag, den 26.01.2014, 02:22 +0000 schrieb Mateusz Kowalczyk: >> I'd just like to query the status of the nightly builds. Is anything >> happening in that area? [1] is right on the front page of the GHC Trac >> even though no builds were ran for ~5 months. Perhaps it should be >> moved out of the way if there's no plan to resume these in the near >> future. > > just to clarify: For what purpose do you want the nightlies? To check > whether GHC validates cleanly, to compare performance numbers, or to get > hold of up-to-date binary distributions?
Personally it's to see what validates that day and while we're at it, I don't see the reason to not use this to get the nightly binaries as well. I agree with pretty much everything that Páli said in his reply. If we can get the validate results from other people's machines, at the very least we have a sanity check: does it only fail for me or for everyone else too? I think that if we have a list of platforms with angry red everywhere, accessible to everyone, people are more likely to react to build failures and we're less likely to have e-mails on ghc-devs from people going ‘is it just me or is it failing for everyone?’. > For the first, I’d really really like to see something that runs before > a change enters master, so that non-validating mistakes like > http://git.haskell.org/ghc.git/commitdiff/b26e2f92c5c6f77fe361293a128da637e728959c > (without the corresponding change in > http://git.haskell.org/ghc.git/commitdiff/59f491a933ec7380698b776e14c3753c2a318a89) > do not reach master in the first place. > > I’m happy to help setting up such an infrastructure, including designing > the precise workflow. I think doing a per-commit validate before something enters master would be difficult simply because one would have to wait a long time before their commit is allowed in. Even on the fast boxes, the quick validate from clean checkout seems to take about an hour at best. > For the second and third, a build farm like the builders would of course > be great. I actually once got a Igloo snowboall from Linaro for that > purpose, but never finished setting it up properly. So once the builders > are going to be revived, I’d like to finally do that. > > > Greetings, > Joachim > -- Mateusz K. _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
