Hi Tom: On 2016-09-22 13:54+0100 Tom Schoonjans wrote:
> [Hazen said] >> I am not familiar with Travis-CI or AppVeyor but they sound interesting. > > Nowadays Continuous Integration is a standard tool for automated testing and > building nightly releases. With Travis-CI and AppVeyor you can easily > configure that each commit sets of a number of builds on Linux, Mac OS X and > Windows using any combination of options and compilers you want. Plus it’s > completely free for open-source projects! > > It is also possible to require PRs to successfully build and survive testing > on Travis-CI and AppVeyor as a precondition for being merged in. > > For an example of Travis-CI and AppVeyor, have a look at for example > https://github.com/tschoonj/easyRNG <https://github.com/tschoonj/easyRNG>, > scroll to the end of the page and click on the green badges. Even if we move to github I would advise whoever is in charge of such a move to not rely on semi-proprietary or proprietary products this way since "free of cost" can change to "costly" with one corporate decision at github. I do agree that nightly testing of PLplot would be worthwhile. In fact, we are already almost completely set up to do that with ctest, and very little more is required for anybody interested to publish their nightly PLplot ctest results in cdash client mode. So all that is essentially required is a cdash (see <www.cdash.org>) server to collect and display those results in convenient form on a website. KitWare already provides such a free service (see <http://my.cdash.org/>), but I recall there are some limitations (e.g., only a limited number of clients are allowed for a given project such as PLplot). But note that cdash is a completely open-source product so it should be straightforward to download that source and build a cdash server. So ultimately if the my.cdash.org limitations became an issue we would need to find a volunteer (presumably someone who is already running their own website) who is willing to build and host a cdash server for PLplot. 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-general mailing list Plplot-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
