[IAEP] Project hosting

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Ivan Krstić
<krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> wrote:
> On May 26, 2008, at 9:43 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>>
>> I think this is advanced stuff.  For now, we'd be content with a
>> running sugar-jhbuild installing in a local directory that gets
>> wiped out regularly.
>
> The setup I described isn't very complicated in practice, but if there are
> easier things that will accomplish the desired testing goals, I'm all for
> setting those up first.
>
> The nice thing about using a VM solution is that it naturally scales to
> encompass different distributions and entire operating systems, including
> Windows. At the moment, cross-distro Sugar testing is fairly ad-hoc, and
> while we know Sugar won't directly run on Windows for any interesting value
> of "run", I don't think we know which _components_ -- if any -- do build and
> run on that platform. Same for OS X.

We need at least to be able to do builds in different linux distro, so
I agree that a VM solution would be ideal.

> I envision the _end_ goal for Sugar integration testing along the lines of
> every commit to Sugar git master triggering a clean build on, say, the
> stable and bleeding-edge versions of the 3 top Linux distributions, and
> Windows and OS X. An IRC bot on #sugar could throw out a warning for any
> build failures (I imagine those for the last two OSes listed would be
> initially muted), and provide web-browsable logs.

That's exactly what I think we need!

Marco