From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 14:07:00 GMT
Subject: Re: 0 bot for Git
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1604251603590.2896@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <1C553D20-26D9-4BF2-B77E-DEAEDDE869E2@gmail.com>

Hi Lars,

On Sun, 24 Apr 2016, Lars Schneider wrote:

> [...] the current Git Travis CI OSX build always installs the latest
> versions of Git LFS and Perforce via brew [1] and the Linux build
> installs fixed versions [2].  Consequently new LFS/Perforce versions can
> brake the OS X build even if there is no change in Git.
> 
> You could argue that this is bad CI practice because CI results should
> be reproducible.  However, it has value to test the latest versions to
> detect integration errors as the one with Git LFS 1.2. We could add
> additional build jobs to test fixed versions and latest versions but
> this would just burn a lot of CPU cycles... that was the reason why I
> chose the way it is implemented right now. I will add a comment to the
> OSX build to make the current strategy more clear (Linux fixed versions,
> OS X latest versions).
> 
> What do you think about that? Do you agree/disagree? Do you see a better
> way?

I agree with your reasoning.

Ciao,
Dscho