Hi all,

i realize that Lazarus is a "hobby" / volunteers project but is it possible to use some sort of Continuous Integration (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration ) ?

I used Bamboo for a while, 4 years ago, and it was definitelly an improvement for that projects team. At least it gaves us an early indication that the commits was making the poject unbuildable.

regards,

2010/11/20 Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis :

That is what the snapshots are used for. I admit is not optimal.

Vincent

Well that is more or less what we do. (Though i can't speak for everyone, just my experience, and what I see in terms of others commits).

Martin

???? 20/11/2010 1:46 ??, ?/? Martin ??????:

Sorry i don't understand.

Your daily involvement with the Lazarus project, includes building trunk 2 - 3 times, to see that projects builds, at least for the most interesting platforms ?

If that is the case, isn't this a waste of time ?

just my 2 ( pick your fav currency ;) )

???? 20/11/2010 1:27 ??, ?/? Vincent Snijders ??????:

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That is what the snapshots are used for. I admit is not optimal.

If i setup something like Bamboo is the project willing to take a look at least ?

regards,

2010/11/20 Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis :

Look at what? Is there a live demo of Bamboo?

Vincent

No, I check in that often. I build that often (or even more often for my platform (I *always* [1] build before I check in)

Then every night (as Vincent pointed out) snapshots are build. They may not be for *all* platforms at the moment, that is a matter of configuration. And a matter of setting up a notification system. As you pointed out, no one is working fulltime on it, the amount of daily changes, hardly require a rebuild every few hours.

***** So IMHO we don't need another Sytem to detect build errors => we have one, we only need to finish it's setup *****

Martin

[1] Allowing for being human and forget every once in a long while

???? 20/11/2010 2:20 ??, ?/? Vincent Snijders ??????:

I didn't search a lot but there is an Open Source CI system http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/overview.html. I can search to see if there is a live ( demo or not ) puplished from someone.

regards,

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***** So IMHO we don't need another Sytem to detect build errors => we have one, we only need to finish it's setup *****

Having said that => can it allow integration of a test-suite run?

Martin

Well, on the FPC an unbuildable system is usually detected with hours anyway.

Being buildable or not is not the main issue of Lazarus. Ok, i think it happened one time last week, because some new file was forgotten.

The main issue is, does the build executable make sense.

Marc