On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 11:22:04 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> 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

What about windows then?

The auto testing framework is only Linux I believe.

So we'd have nightly builds, but only on nix. (Which I'm ok with!)

On 9/25/15 7:27 AM, wobbles wrote:
> On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 11:22:04 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>
> What about windows then?
>
> The auto testing framework is only Linux I believe.
>
> So we'd have nightly builds, but only on nix. (Which I'm ok with!)

We have all these testers (including windows):

https://auto-tester.puremagic.com/

-Steve

On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 11:27:29 UTC, wobbles wrote:
> On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 11:22:04 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> 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
>
> What about windows then?
>
> The auto testing framework is only Linux I believe.
>
> So we'd have nightly builds, but only on nix. (Which I'm ok with!)

auto tester has windows, linux and OS X.

On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 11:34:55 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> auto tester has windows, linux and OS X.

And FreeBSD. It's constantly building on all of the platforms that dmd supports. I expect that we'd have a lot more problems leaking through into releases if it weren't. The auto tester (including the pull tester) has been a huge help, and the work that's been done on that (primarily by Brad and Daniel, I believe) is hugely appreciated.

- Jonathan M Davis