Hi Harald, > I'm not quite sure if I follow your argument here. From my point of > view, the importance is that we test build on those platforms/compilers > that most of our users actually use. So I would rather argue for > testing with (the gcc versions of) various recent releases of popular > GNU/Linux distributions or on different CPUs such as ARM, than to > introduce a compiler version that isn't even included in latest FreeBSD > (11).
Thanks for response, your point of view makes sense. > Also, as a compromise proposal: we don't necessarily have to do it as > part of the testing of each and every commit. It might be sufficient to > do this e.g. once as part of a daily/nightly job which sends e-mails to > the author of the commit that broke? Great idea! Let's see, what other developers think about that... With best regards, Vadim Yanitskiy.
