This is Great! There is an unfortunate correlation between being a open source contributor and not using the most popular operating system among users.
You should post this to the julia-dev list. I would assume that fewer people skip posts on the lower traffic list, and when this is up and running I think that would be quite a milestone for the community. Ivar kl. 18:24:28 UTC+1 tirsdag 11. mars 2014 skrev Tony Kelman følgende: > > I want to make a bit of an announcement for people who don't browse the > Github issues list. I've been working on setting up continuous integration, > a la Travis, but for Windows using AppVeyor - > http://blog.appveyor.com/2014/02/19/appveyor-20-dedicated-build-vms-parallel-testing-nuget-deployment. > > I have a WIP PR for Julia itself here > https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/6028 with some discussion, but > there are some remaining problems I have to solve to get it working for the > main Julia codebase. > > What does work now, and I encourage package maintainers who've been > looking for cross-platform testing to set up, is using AppVeyor for Julia > packages. Like Travis, it's free for open source projects, but currently > only allows one concurrent build at a time on the free plan, time limit 30 > minutes per build. I have a very simple example configuration file set up > here https://github.com/tkelman/JSON.jl/blob/master/appveyor.yml and you > can see what the build result looks like here > https://ci-beta.appveyor.com/project/tkelman/json-jl/build/1.0.31. Not > much to look at since JSON.jl is a simple self-contained package, but you > can see how similar the appveyor.yml configuration file is to the existing > travis.yml. I'm using the Julia binary installer instead of the apt-get > PPA's, and creating a symlink in Windows requires admin rights so I had to > change `ln -s` to `cp -r` (there may be a way to elevate permissions in > AppVeyor but I'm not sure how). > > I think this can be a valuable service to identify Windows bugs faster, > since the number of Julia developers who use Windows on a regular basis is > understandably limited. AppVeyor's developer/founder has been in touch and > would be excited to see more users of the tool he's put together, and he's > been very responsive to troubleshooting and feature requests. > > -Tony >
