On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 12:43 AM, William Deegan <[email protected]>wrote:
> Russel, > > > On Feb 3, 2013, at 9:31 PM, Russel Winder <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The current SCons workflow assumes that each developer has access to all > > platforms for testing prior to creating a pull request and/or > > committing. We need to set up a CI service that can be used to test any > > submitted request on all major platforms. > > > > So, I am working on D support but in a fork because there are breakages > > on certain platforms that I have no access to. Catch-22: the stuff > > cannot get merged in to the mainline because it cannot be tested and it > > cannot be tested because it cannot be merged in to the mainline. Without > > a multi-platform team effort this means nothing can ever get merged into > > the mainline. Thus progress is halted. Hence lack of enthusiasm for > > doing any work on SCons core. > > > > There must be some SCons user organizations out there who can contribute > > back to SCons development by offering CI build resources? > > We already have: > buildbot.scons.org > > Likely what we'd need to assist you is to have D installed on win32? > Sounds like it. I think Russel's also asking for a way to build branches with the buildbot; that way he and/or others could commit some D code on a branch, submit to the buildbot (somehow), and iterate until all platforms work. Russel, is that an accurate summary? -- Gary
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