Re: Continous Integration (was: RE: Git v2.13.1 SHA1 very broken)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 3, 2017, 12:34 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1.1707031429560.84669@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <20170702203548.GA26574@dinwoodie.org>

Hi Adam,

On Sun, 2 Jul 2017, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:

> I do the builds for the Cygwin distribution on my normal PC (so
> reasonably powerful but definitely not devoted to the purpose), and
> doing the build and running the default tests takes in the region of 8
> hours for the 64-bit build and 12 hours for the 32-bit build.

Wow. 8 hours. I take it that you are bitten by the same issue as Git for Windows, where Git's test suite uses Unix shell scripting rather heavily, and Unix shell simply requiring tons of expensive emulation to run decently on Windows.

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> At the moment, I'm trying to set up automated regular builds on my PC
> using BuildBot.  I think that, short of someone donating some fairly
> significant resources for Cygwin builds, that's going to be the closest
> I'll be able to find for spotting problems early.  It's a project in my
> currently limited spare time, though, and not something I've done
> before, so it's taking a little while to get going.

How automated is your process? (Including, most importantly, updating the Cygwin build setup...)

I ask because I could possibly set up something using the existing infrastructure for Git for Windows' testing, as long as

1) everything is scripted, and

2) you do not need interactive access to any box (I mainly use Docker
   containers to run the builds)

If you are interested, feel free to ping me via private mail.

Ciao, Johannes