This is really great. As someone who has gone most of his life without using Windows, how easy is this to set up if you are not a knowledgeable window's developer? I'm thinking about sometimes hard to build library dependencies, like libgit2 or an opencl vendor implementation. I would try this but I'm sure it's painful to debug build errors if you don't have access to a window's machine setup similar to the CI environment.
Jake On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 4:06:02 PM UTC-4, Ivar Nesje wrote: > > 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 >> >
