Continuous integration tests also for MacOS and Windows

[Friedrich Beckmann]

Hi Ben,

sure - it would be nice to have CI for MacOS and Windows too. I do my pspp 
development on my Macbook laptop and I do not have a „networked“ Mac somewhere. 
As Jeremy mentioned macports uses travis-ci - I am not sure if they run „make 
check“ during the test build. For MacOS there are two ways to install pspp

a) via macports
b) via install bundle

It tried to describe the differences here: 
https://www.hs-augsburg.de/homes/beckmanf/pspp/ „Technology and Build process“
The main obstacle for macports is that you need to install an Apple XCode 
Compiler and the macports environment before you can install pspp.

If I remember correctly Harry builds the windows version as a cross compile 
from linux and the test suite does not run on Windows.

Fritz

> Am 29.07.2020 um 18:26 schrieb Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>:
> 
> I keep thinking it would be nice to have automatic builds of PSPP for
> Mac OS and for Windows, in the same way that we have them for
> GNU/Linux. It would be helpful to our users.
> 
> Regarding Mac, I don't have a Mac OS system, nor do I want to acquire
> one. The Travis system at travis-ci.org can do autobuilds for Mac.
> However, there are a couple of obstacles to using it for PSPP from a
> GNU point of view:
> * It only builds from Github, so we would have to mirror PSPP to
> Github. I don't think the GNU project approves of Github because of
> its proprietary implementation and proprietary Javascript.
> * Travis itself has a proprietary implementation and proprietary Javascript.
> 
> I'd be very pleased if someone could point me to a more-free alternative.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 6:39 AM Friedrich Beckmann
> <friedrich.beckmann@gmx.de> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Tony,
>> 
>> I guess you are running into this problem here:
>> 
>> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58537
>> 
>> So as a workaround you can start psppire from the terminal with proper 
>> language variable settings until I do a new release
>> based on gettext 0.20.x. I think another workaround is to uninstall the 
>> languages that you do not need on MacOS.
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> Friedrich
>> 
>>> Am 29.07.2020 um 05:04 schrieb Tony Lima <tony@proflima.com>:
>>> 
>>> I’ve installed two different versions.  Both launch into Spanish language.  
>>> As far as I can tell, my machine is set to US English (although I do have 
>>> multiple keyboard languages).  Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Tony Lima
>> 
>>