Re: [PATCH v2] travis-ci: build and test Git on Windows

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Mar 24, 2017, 11:48 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1703241242210.17768@tvnag.unkk.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20170324113747.44991-1-larsxschneider@gmail.com>

On Fri, 24 Mar 2017, Lars Schneider wrote:

> Most Git developers work on Linux and they have no way to know if their 
> changes would break the Git for Windows build. Let's fix that by adding a 
> job to TravisCI that builds and tests Git on Windows. Unfortunately, 
> TravisCI does not support Windows.

Forgive me for bursting in and possibly repeating what you've already discussed. I just read about the limitations for doing windows builds via travis so I thought I'd at least let you know that you can avoid those limitations without too much work:

Two alternative approaches would be:

1. use appveyor.com, as that is a Travis-like service for Windows. We do our
    windows-builds in the curl project using that.

2. run your own buildbot and submit data using the regular github hook and
    have buildbot submit the results back (it has a plugin that can do that).
    We do solaris-builds in the curl project using that method (thanks to
    opencsw.org) and some additional windows-builds thanks to private
    individuals.

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  / daniel.haxx.se