Re: Continuous integration on Windows?

On 10/12/2017 06:46 PM, Thomas Munro wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 10:57 AM, Andrew Dunstan
> <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> Actually, that didn't take too long.
>>
>> No testing yet, but this runs a build successfully:
>> <https://gist.github.com/adunstan/7f18e5db33bb2d73f69ff8c9337a4e6c>
>>
>> See results at <https://ci.appveyor.com/project/AndrewDunstan/pgdevel>
> Excellent! Thanks for looking at this, Andrew. It's going to be
> really useful for removing surprises.
>
> It would be nice to finish up with a little library of control files
> like this for different CI vendors, possibly with some different
> options (different compilers, different word size, add valgrind, ...).
> I don't know if it would ever make sense to have standardised CI
> control files in the tree -- many projects do -- but it's very easy to
> carry a commit that adds them in development branches but drop it as
> part of the format-patch-and-post process.
>

Well, as you can see here the appveyor.yml file can live outside the
tree that's being built.

What would be good, though, would be to split build.pl into two so you
wouldn't need the auxiliary file I had to create from it.

cheers

andrew

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