Re: Using Firefox to test the Visual C++ compiler

2016-12-01 Thread Gregory Szorc
Many of our tests have inconsistent results. Generally speaking, developers only run a narrow subset of tests locally and defer running the full suite of tests to our automation infrastructure. Within that infrastructure, we have a database of known "intermittent" failures and tools that attempt

Re: Using Firefox to test the Visual C++ compiler

2016-11-28 Thread ryanvm
On Wednesday, November 16, 2016 at 3:27:45 AM UTC-5, Gratian Lup wrote: > Hello, > > *I posted this on multiple mailing lists, I'm not sure which is the right > place for these questions. > > I'm a developer on the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler (code optimizer) and I'm > looking into extending

Re: Using Firefox to test the Visual C++ compiler

2016-11-28 Thread Gratian Lup
Hi, Thanks a lot for your help! I think doing the testing on our machines is a better approach overall, even from an engineering perspective - in case of a failure you can just grab the machine and start debugging, recompiling, etc. The legal work, if possible at all, would be quite complicated

Re: Using Firefox to test the Visual C++ compiler

2016-11-21 Thread Jonathan Wilson
issues to work out. (I'm guessing Microsoft LCA will have an opinion on mostly-in-the-public-domain Mozilla infrastructure accessing pre-release Microsoft software.) Microsoft does release "nightly" compiler builds these days

Re: Using Firefox to test the Visual C++ compiler

2016-11-16 Thread Gratian Lup
On Wednesday, November 16, 2016 at 5:23:58 AM UTC-8, Ted Mielczarek wrote: > Gratian, > > One of my coworkers reminded me of something that might be an option for > you--we have scripts that would allow you to provide a Firefox build > that you generated (at a publicly accessible URL) and trigger

Re: Using Firefox to test the Visual C++ compiler

2016-11-16 Thread Ted Mielczarek
Gratian, One of my coworkers reminded me of something that might be an option for you--we have scripts that would allow you to provide a Firefox build that you generated (at a publicly accessible URL) and trigger test jobs on that build in our CI infrastructure. If that's something that sounds

Re: Using Firefox to test the Visual C++ compiler

2016-11-16 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On Wed, Nov 16, 2016, at 03:27 AM, lgrat...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello, > > *I posted this on multiple mailing lists, I'm not sure which is the right > place for these questions. Hi Gratian, Finding the right communication channel always feels like a problem at Mozilla. :) dev-builds is a fine