On Aug 8, 2014 7:27 AM, "Mateusz Kowalczyk" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 08/08/2014 07:21 AM, Alexander Kjeldaas wrote: > > Microsoft has free VMs for testing purposes. It expires after 90 days and > > the only relevant limitation that i see is that it's not licensed for a > > "live operating environment". > > > > That might or might not exclude Travis, but scripting a test that > > developers can run personally should be allowed. > > > > https://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools > > > > Alexander > > This seems to be a VM dedicated for running Internet Explorer, is it > actually a fully-featured environment? The site doesn't show much info.
I don't know as I haven't used it. However, developing for any browser these days can include native code, GPGPU etc, so I don't expect it to be severely crippled. Alexander > > > On Aug 8, 2014 5:14 AM, "Mateusz Kowalczyk" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On 07/16/2014 12:55 AM, Joachim Breitner wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I feel sorry for Simon always repeatedly stuck with an unbuildable tree, > >>> and an idea crossed my mind: Can we build¹ GHC under Wine? If so, is it > >>> likely to catch the kind of problems that Simon is getting? If so, maybe > >>> it runs fast enough to be also tested by travis on every commit? > >>> > >>> (This mail is to find out if people have tried it before. If not, I’ll > >>> give it a quick shot.) > >>> > >>> Greetings, > >>> Joachim > >>> > >>> ¹ we surely can use it: > >> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC_under_Wine > >>> > >>> > >> > >> Perhaps this is a bit off-tangent but few months ago there were some > >> commits landing to the nix package manager which allow you to run tests > >> in a Windows VM. It was created to run tests for things like > >> cross-compiled packages but it probably could be adapted. > >> > >> If you don't mind actually installing Windows (in a VM) and have nix > >> already/plan on using it then that might be a more preferable workflow: > >> create a nix expression that builds a validates GHC in the VM and spits > >> out the result. > >> > >> It's just something I thought I should mention in case anyone was > >> interested. > >> > >> -- > >> Mateusz K. > >> _______________________________________________ > >> ghc-devs mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > >> > > > > > -- > Mateusz K. > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
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