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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