And it's important to remember the big differences even between minor releases of Node where particular bugs have been fixed or APIs changed. I don't really see how a server hosted solution for free can scale to all these platforms the way that a user-distributed system like cpantesters can.
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 2:05 PM, mscdex <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 18, 2:03 pm, mscdex <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mar 18, 12:08 pm, Arunoda Susiripala <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > As martin mentioned travis does support multiple node versions. I > agree we > > > do not have multiple platforms when its come to travis. Since node use > as > > > Server Side JS for most of the apps, I think that won't be a big issue. > > > > As someone who has written a significant number of node addons, I > > think it *is* a big issue. We already have Windows, OSX, and Linux to > > test against, and now it looks like FreeBSD is also going to be a > > first class citizen[1]. Also throw into that mix different processor > > architectures. As you can see, this leads to a lot of different > > environment combinations that need to be tested against. > > > > If travis-ci had something available that allowed you to test in all > > of these environments for open source projects, I'd be on board > > immediately -- even if it meant that tests took a little longer to > > run. > > > > [1]https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/5025 > > I forgot to also mention sunos/solaris/illumos/etc in that OS list. :-) > > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
