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On Aug 8, 2014 7:27 AM, "Mateusz Kowalczyk" <<a href="mailto:fuuzetsu@fuuzetsu.co.uk">fuuzetsu@fuuzetsu.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> On 08/08/2014 07:21 AM, Alexander Kjeldaas wrote:<br>
> > Microsoft has free VMs for testing purposes. It expires after 90 days and<br>
> > the only relevant limitation that i see is that it's not licensed for a<br>
> > "live operating environment".<br>
> ><br>
> > That might or might not exclude Travis, but scripting a test that<br>
> > developers can run personally should be allowed.<br>
> ><br>
> > <a href="https://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools">https://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools</a><br>
> ><br>
> > Alexander<br>
><br>
> This seems to be a VM dedicated for running Internet Explorer, is it<br>
> actually a fully-featured environment? The site doesn't show much info.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I don't know as I haven't used it. However, developing for any browser these days can include native code, GPGPU etc, so I don't expect it to be severely crippled.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Alexander</p>
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> > On Aug 8, 2014 5:14 AM, "Mateusz Kowalczyk" <<a href="mailto:fuuzetsu@fuuzetsu.co.uk">fuuzetsu@fuuzetsu.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> >> On 07/16/2014 12:55 AM, Joachim Breitner wrote:<br>
> >>> Hi,<br>
> >>><br>
> >>> I feel sorry for Simon always repeatedly stuck with an unbuildable tree,<br>
> >>> and an idea crossed my mind: Can we build¹ GHC under Wine? If so, is it<br>
> >>> likely to catch the kind of problems that Simon is getting? If so, maybe<br>
> >>> it runs fast enough to be also tested by travis on every commit?<br>
> >>><br>
> >>> (This mail is to find out if people have tried it before. If not, I’ll<br>
> >>> give it a quick shot.)<br>
> >>><br>
> >>> Greetings,<br>
> >>> Joachim<br>
> >>><br>
> >>> ¹ we surely can use it:<br>
> >> <a href="http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC_under_Wine">http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC_under_Wine</a><br>
> >>><br>
> >>><br>
> >><br>
> >> Perhaps this is a bit off-tangent but few months ago there were some<br>
> >> commits landing to the nix package manager which allow you to run tests<br>
> >> in a Windows VM. It was created to run tests for things like<br>
> >> cross-compiled packages but it probably could be adapted.<br>
> >><br>
> >> If you don't mind actually installing Windows (in a VM) and have nix<br>
> >> already/plan on using it then that might be a more preferable workflow:<br>
> >> create a nix expression that builds a validates GHC in the VM and spits<br>
> >> out the result.<br>
> >><br>
> >> It's just something I thought I should mention in case anyone was<br>
> >> interested.<br>
> >><br>
> >> --<br>
> >> Mateusz K.<br>
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