I just want to say: great effort doing these investigations Krzysztof!
Continuing the CI tools investigation, I took a stab at setting up
lib2geom builds on Travis CI. This was totally trivial and took maybe
10 minutes. I only needed to figure out the correct APT commands to
install the dependencies.
https://travis-ci.org/inkscape/lib2geom/jobs/107693602
GitLab does not have anything comparable. GitLab CI supports only
Ruby, and for anything else you need to maintain your own runner that
executes the builds. A downside is that Travis CI is tightly coupled
to GitHub and we cannot use it to build projects from repositories
that are not on GitHub.
I also looked at AppVeyor, which is a CI tool specifically for
building on Windows. It's not tied to GitHub at all - it can pull
sources from any public Git repository. It can run builds on multiple
versions of Visual Studio, as well as under MinGW. It seems that it
could work. However, I'll need a Windows machine to figure out the
correct incantations for setting up lib2geom's dependencies, since
figuring this out via test commits and the Web UI is very tedious.
AppVeyor integrates with NuGet, which is a bit like APT for Windows
development packages. It has Boost 1.60, glib 2.32 and cairo 1.12, but
it does not have GTK. It should be possible to push the rest of our
dependencies to NuGet, but it's a fair amount of work.
Best regards, Krzysztof
2016-02-07 18:18 GMT-08:00 Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...400...>:
> 2016-02-07 15:17 GMT-08:00 Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...400...>:
>> First look: Gitlab has Windows builds in its CI system, which is very
>> important. On GitHub we would need to use at least 2 different CI
>> tools: Travis CI does not support Windows, and AppVeyor is
>> Windows-only and uses the MS toolchain.
>
> Correction: the runner software for Gitlab CI can be installed on
> those platforms, and you can easily add those runners to build
> projects on Gitlab, but there are no public Windows or OSX builders.
> In fact, Gitlab's public runners only support Ruby.
>
> Best regards, Krzysztof