On Monday, 24 December 2012 at 13:05:08 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2012-12-24 13:52, Rory McGuire wrote:
>> What kind of computers would we need to do these tests?
>> I have some spare resources for one or two VPS.
>
> I have no idea how many are need to run tests on all branches. Brad would know this better.
>
> What usually is a problem is Mac OS X. Since you're only allowed to run it on Apple computers (if you want to follow the EULA) and Mac users is a minority here.
>
>> Perhaps others do too.
>
> People have already donated computers/shells to run the test suite as we do now.
>
> I'm wondering if it would be a good idea to start using Travis CI. Currently it only supports Linux but they're working on adding Mac OS X and Windows.

If people aren't fussy about the EULA (which is apparently not valid in the EU anyway) then I could probably set up os x on a machine at university that could be left on indefinitely as a test machine. I wouldn't be able to do anything on that until mid-january though.

On 2012-12-24 22:38, John Colvin wrote:

> If people aren't fussy about the EULA (which is apparently not valid in
> the EU anyway) then I could probably set up os x on a machine at
> university that could be left on indefinitely as a test machine. I
> wouldn't be able to do anything on that until mid-january though.

I think they are. It's been talked on these newsgroups before.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On 12/24/2012 1:38 PM, John Colvin wrote:
> If people aren't fussy about the EULA (which is apparently not valid in the EU
> anyway)

I'd rather we stick to the EULA, much as I don't like them.

On Tuesday, 25 December 2012 at 03:09:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 12/24/2012 1:38 PM, John Colvin wrote:
>> If people aren't fussy about the EULA (which is apparently not valid in the EU
>> anyway)
>
> I'd rather we stick to the EULA, much as I don't like them.

Ok, I guess it's worth not pissing off Apple.

If only we had some small commercial support of some sort... A mac mini is less than £500 new here in the UK, probably less than that in the US and that's not even considering second-hand...

On 12/25/2012 5:27 AM, John Colvin wrote:
> If only we had some small commercial support of some sort... A mac mini is less
> than £500 new here in the UK, probably less than that in the US and that's not
> even considering second-hand...

An old, slow, second hand one would be fine, as long as it can run the latest OS X.

On Tue, 25 Dec 2012, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 12/25/2012 5:27 AM, John Colvin wrote:
> > If only we had some small commercial support of some sort... A mac mini is
> > less
> > than ?500 new here in the UK, probably less than that in the US and that's
> > not
> > even considering second-hand...
> 
> An old, slow, second hand one would be fine, as long as it can run the latest OS X.

Thats how we have osx in the pull tester.  I picked up a used mini.  I've accumulated quite a lot of oldish hardwareat this point.  The only other doner machine is Sean's osx box.  More hardware would be nice, but isnt a blocker for additional branch testing, software is.  Working on it over the holidays.

On 2012-12-25 20:53, Brad Roberts wrote:

> More hardware would be nice, but isnt a
> blocker for additional branch testing, software is.  Working on it over
> the holidays.

Have you considered using any existing software for continues integration server?

We're using CruiseControl (the Ruby version) at work. It's simple and easy to setup and does what we need it to do.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

Anyone knows when the new version will be available for download? An E.T.A. would be fine.

Thanks!
Phil

On 12/26/2012 2:08 PM, Phil Lavoie wrote:
> Anyone knows when the new version will be available for download? An E.T.A.
> would be fine.

It is now. Please subscribe to the dmd-beta mailing list, where such notifications go.


http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd1beta.zip
http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd2beta.zip

On Wednesday, 26 December 2012 at 22:10:57 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 12/26/2012 2:08 PM, Phil Lavoie wrote:
>> Anyone knows when the new version will be available for download? An E.T.A.
>> would be fine.
>
> It is now. Please subscribe to the dmd-beta mailing list, where such notifications go.
>
>
> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd1beta.zip
> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd2beta.zip

Thanks!