Hi all !
It's sad a little that there's no dmd's nightly builds.
Maybe we can introduce them ? It would be great to have an ability to download latest dmd.

On 25/09/15 12:46 AM, Temtaime wrote:
> Hi all !
> It's sad a little that there's no dmd's nightly builds.
> Maybe we can introduce them ? It would be great to have an ability to
> download latest dmd.
>

What would be really nice is to pair up the auto tester to auto generate installation binaries/archives.

That way the daily build would only be the last one made each day. Simple and effective :)

But who would be willing to make that happen.. hmm?

On Thursday, 24 September 2015 at 13:18:28 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
> On 25/09/15 12:46 AM, Temtaime wrote:
>> Hi all !
>> It's sad a little that there's no dmd's nightly builds.
>> Maybe we can introduce them ? It would be great to have an ability to
>> download latest dmd.
>>
>
> What would be really nice is to pair up the auto tester to auto generate installation binaries/archives.
>
> That way the daily build would only be the last one made each day. Simple and effective :)
>
> But who would be willing to make that happen.. hmm?

If we're going to use the autotester, why not just upload a new one after every ~master build? What advantage is there to limiting it to only one per day?

On 25/09/15 1:32 AM, John Colvin wrote:
> On Thursday, 24 September 2015 at 13:18:28 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>> On 25/09/15 12:46 AM, Temtaime wrote:
>>> Hi all !
>>> It's sad a little that there's no dmd's nightly builds.
>>> Maybe we can introduce them ? It would be great to have an ability to
>>> download latest dmd.
>>>
>>
>> What would be really nice is to pair up the auto tester to auto
>> generate installation binaries/archives.
>>
>> That way the daily build would only be the last one made each day.
>> Simple and effective :)
>>
>> But who would be willing to make that happen.. hmm?
>
> If we're going to use the autotester, why not just upload a new one
> after every ~master build? What advantage is there to limiting it to
> only one per day?

I didn't say limit it. Only advertise the one per day one.
So e.g. there would still be a link to them from the auto tester.
But not a directory of them from e.g. dlang.org.

On Thursday, 24 September 2015 at 13:18:28 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
> On 25/09/15 12:46 AM, Temtaime wrote:
>> Hi all !
>> It's sad a little that there's no dmd's nightly builds.
>> Maybe we can introduce them ? It would be great to have an ability to
>> download latest dmd.
>>
>
> What would be really nice is to pair up the auto tester to auto generate installation binaries/archives.
>
> That way the daily build would only be the last one made each day. Simple and effective :)
>
> But who would be willing to make that happen.. hmm?

digger can build any dmd version by commit id. It can even store the resulting binaries in a space-efficient format using git, see Vladimir's post:

http://blog.thecybershadow.net/2015/05/05/is-d-slim-yet/

On Thursday, 24 September 2015 at 13:36:09 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
> On 25/09/15 1:32 AM, John Colvin wrote:
>> On Thursday, 24 September 2015 at 13:18:28 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>>> On 25/09/15 12:46 AM, Temtaime wrote:
>>>>[...]
>>>
>>> What would be really nice is to pair up the auto tester to auto
>>> generate installation binaries/archives.
>>>
>>> That way the daily build would only be the last one made each day.
>>> Simple and effective :)
>>>
>>> But who would be willing to make that happen.. hmm?
>>
>> If we're going to use the autotester, why not just upload a new one
>> after every ~master build? What advantage is there to limiting it to
>> only one per day?
>
> I didn't say limit it. Only advertise the one per day one.
> So e.g. there would still be a link to them from the auto tester.
> But not a directory of them from e.g. dlang.org.

I guess I don't get why anyone would be interested in having last night's build instead of the latest build.

On Thursday, 24 September 2015 at 13:44:11 UTC, John Colvin wrote:

> I guess I don't get why anyone would be interested in having last night's build instead of the latest build.

If the latest build is broken for you, but you want to use a cutting edge version.

On 9/24/2015 6:18 AM, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
> But who would be willing to make that happen.. hmm?

I've asked for it for years. But nobody wants to spend the time to make it happen.

On Thursday, 24 September 2015 at 18:41:41 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> On Thursday, 24 September 2015 at 13:44:11 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>
>> I guess I don't get why anyone would be interested in having last night's build instead of the latest build.
>
> If the latest build is broken for you, but you want to use a cutting edge version.

Sure. Best solution might be have links to nightlies as well as the latest

On 9/24/15 3:44 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 9/24/2015 6:18 AM, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>> But who would be willing to make that happen.. hmm?
>
> I've asked for it for years. But nobody wants to spend the time to make
> it happen.

This doesn't seem that hard. We are ALREADY building and testing the system after every pull request is merged on the auto tester.

Can't the auto tester just zip up the built directory and provide a download of it on request?

-Steve