On 2016-11-23 23:29-0500 Hazen Babcock wrote: > > Going in a completely different direction from travis-ci.. I've been > experimenting with Docker: > > https://docs.docker.com/ > > Quoting the web-site "Docker provides a way to run applications securely > isolated in a container, packaged with all its dependencies and libraries". > > What this means for us is that we can test just about any linux distro with > just about any set of libraries. For example, the attached will test the > current SF PLplot with a very limited number of dependencies on the > debian-latest distro. More interestingly, we can create images that have all > the dependencies and PLplot loaded. Then for updated test results all that > we'd have to do is pull the most recent version of PLplot, cmake, make and > ctest. > > So, thoughts about what 5 or so linux distros we want to be sure that PLplot > works on?
I think for any Linux distro we choose, we should choose the latest version that has reasonable reliability for the tests. So generally that means the latest stable release on some but some have rolling releases that have a pretty good reputation for reliability as well. So my choices would be Debian Stretch (rolling), Ubuntu yakkety (latest stable since there is no Ubuntu rolling), OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (rolling), Arch Linux (only a rolling release), and Fedora 26 (latest stable). I chose Fedora 26 over Rawhide (the Fedora rolling release) somewhat arbitrarily so others here with some 26 versus Rawhide reliability experience should help us finalize that decision. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
