Nightlies

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Sonntag, den 26.01.2014, 02:22 +0000 schrieb Mateusz Kowalczyk:
> I'd just like to query the status of the nightly builds. Is anything
> happening in that area? [1] is right on the front page of the GHC Trac
> even though no builds were ran for ~5 months. Perhaps it should be
> moved out of the way if there's no plan to resume these in the near
> future.

just to clarify: For what purpose do you want the nightlies? To check
whether GHC validates cleanly, to compare performance numbers, or to get
hold of up-to-date binary distributions?

For the first, I’d really really like to see something that runs before
a change enters master, so that non-validating mistakes like
http://git.haskell.org/ghc.git/commitdiff/b26e2f92c5c6f77fe361293a128da637e728959c
(without the corresponding change in 
http://git.haskell.org/ghc.git/commitdiff/59f491a933ec7380698b776e14c3753c2a318a89)
do not reach master in the first place.

I’m happy to help setting up such an infrastructure, including designing
the precise workflow.


For the second and third, a build farm like the builders would of course
be great. I actually once got a Igloo snowboall from Linaro for that
purpose, but never finished setting it up properly. So once the builders
are going to be revived, I’d like to finally do that.


Greetings,
Joachim

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