hey all, I just exported the igloo builder code from darcs to git, and put it here https://github.com/cartazio/ghc-builder would this be something worth adding to github.com/haskell ? (i can easily add it if other folks it should be surfaced more visibly)
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Páli Gábor János <pali.ga...@gmail.com>wrote: > 2014-04-01 14:03 GMT+02:00 Simon Peyton Jones <simo...@microsoft.com>: > > Indeed, there is no reason not to use Ian et al's Builder stuff. It's > one of the > > options. But it depends on a critical evaluation of what the advantages > and > > disadvantages of different approaches are > > I found Ian's buildbot an appealing alternative as it does a full > build, including testing, and uploads the resulting binaries to a > common place where anybody can access them (but it can be configured > to do almost anything). The builders may be configured individually > from a single (Haskell-language) configuration file and they are run > on various volunteer-supplied systems so it is also distributed. > > I use this to keep track of the status of the FreeBSD builds to make > my work easier on building the releases and maintaining the associated > ports in the FreeBSD Ports Collection, while offering regular > developer snapshots for the users. This approach also allows me to > control and maintain the builder environment too as it may require > minor or major changes and fixes over time that I can do myself as a > FreeBSD developer. In the past, there were cases where the build was > failing due to bugs in the kernel or the userland, so this is not > purely about GHC itself (unfortunately). > > In my humble opinon, there are merits for the Travis-based Continuous > Integration, so as for the daily snapshot building on each supported > platform. I do not care if it is not Haskell-based or it is hosted at > a central place with individual Virtual Machines for each platform -- > until I can keep doing what I have been doing for 4 years now. > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-d...@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >
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