Re: [Monotone-devel] No windows buildbot?

[Stephen Leake]

Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 06:32:41AM -0400, Stephen Leake wrote:
>> Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> > I just noticed that we seem to have only one win32 buildslave at the
>> > moment, and it's building with VS2005 -- which is cool, but VS support
>> > is broken and we have never used it for actual releases in any case.
>> > So at the moment we have.. no automated testing on win32, and this is
>> > the platform that is most likely to get accidentally broken and also
>> > the one where such breakage is most likely to slip by us all
>> > unnoticed.
>>
>> Right.
>>
>> How is the Windows release built?
>
> MinGW: http://www.venge.net/mtn-wiki/BuildingOnWindows

Well, yes; I followed that.

I meant; who builds it, on what machine?

>> > I don't have any windows in the house, unfortunately, so I can't
>> > exactly help directly, but it seems like this would be a good thing to
>> > fix?  If we don't have testing, there's no way to guarantee that the
>> > next release of monotone will work on windows at all, and I suspect
>> > some people on this list would find that problematic :-).
>>
>> Yes, I would.
>>
>> I do try to run the testsuite often on my own machine, but that's not
>> the same as a buildbot.
>
> Nope... a buildbot is much less effort for you :-).

Only _after_ I get it set up :).

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