On 28/11/2019 17:08, Lawrence Paulson wrote:
> I have no idea how components are managed or updated, but I can see that they 
> aren’t stored in the repository. I hope that somebody else (after first 
> perhaps testing that my emailed binary works on their machine) could do this.

In the past 10 years we have managed to achieve very high quality standards
for our multi-platform application. This has worked thanks to the availability
of reference machines for different operating systems, see the still current
specification at
http://isabelle.in.tum.de/repos/isabelle/file/11e1e273eaad/Admin/PLATFORMS#l26

Already since 2013/2014 there is a steady decline of coverage for macOS, and
right now Catalina is just missing.

Maybe someone wants donate a test machine that is easily available via ssh
(almost) all of the time.

I am generally a bit reluctant to switch to the pre-1970 batch queue mode that
has become popular again recently under the slogan of "CI" -- it requires lots
of tinkering and experimentation due to lack of proper interaction with the
machine. (Or maybe the CSDP provider wants to make such a setup for his 
project.)


        Makarius
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