Re: [Denemo-devel] Continuous Integration

[Richard Shann]

On Mon, 2013-10-21 at 11:12 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> You need to install texlive-metapost.

That seems to be what Eloi has


mingw_dependencies()
{
  sudo apt-get install intltool binutils-mingw-w64-i686
gcc-mingw-w64-i686 g++-mingw-w64-i686 wine texlive-metapost
}

in the reference
https://github.com/azmeuk/denemo/blob/travis/tools/travis/install.sh he
sent

Richard

> 
> Jeremiah
> 
> On Oct 21, 2013 9:56 AM, "Éloi Rivard" <address@hidden> wrote:
>         mf and mpost are not present and this makes my build fail.
>         http://denemo.org/~rshann/gub/downloads/mpost/
>         http://denemo.org/~rshann/gub/downloads/mf/
>         https://travis-ci.org/azmeuk/denemo/jobs/12722937#L1576
>         
>         
>         
>         2013/10/20 Jeremiah Benham <address@hidden>
>                 
>                 
>                 
>                 On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Éloi Rivard
>                 <address@hidden> wrote:
>                         Hi,
>                         
>                         I recently discovered continuous integration
>                         tools, and this is great! The principle is to
>                         build a project and run some tests in
>                         different environments at each commit
>                         (continuously). Each build is made from a
>                         clean new distro image. You prepare some
>                         scripts to install the dependencies, and some
>                         other scripts to build the project and run
>                         some other tests. Then you can check the
>                         result somewhere, on a webpage for example.
>                         
>                         A lot of services exist: Travis, Jenkins,
>                         Wercker etc.
>                         
>                         
>                         This is great to easily spot regressions on
>                         projects that can run on several environments,
>                         such as denemo.
>                         
>                         
>                         
>                         I played a bit with Travis-ci and denemo:
>                         https://travis-ci.org/azmeuk/denemo . It is
>                         synchronized with my github account:
>                         https://github.com/azmeuk/denemo
>                         
>                         For the moment the only test done is
>                         compilation, but it is very flexible and it is
>                         possible to run some unit tests.
>                         Unfortunately, there is no test suite in
>                         denemo :). However, a good non-regression test
>                         could be to launch the program, check that
>                         commands are correctly launched for instance,
>                         and close it just after.
>                         
>                         It works great with gcc and clang, and fails
>                         with mingw as I did not prepared a good script
>                         to run. Jeremiah, if you want to help me
>                         there, you are welcome :) Your gub fork fail
>                         to download ImageMagick.
>                         
>                         
>                         
>                 
>                 
>                 This sounds interesting. I am not sure how much I can
>                 help because I have very little time to work on this
>                 stuff. I could potentially install jenkins on
>                 denemo.org but I am not sure what the size
>                 requirements would be. I will give it a thought after
>                 checking out their website and perhaps some docs. That
>                 is unless the travis-ci thing is better suited to our
>                 needs.
>                 
>                 
>                 Jeremiah
>                 
>                 
>                  
>                 
>                         
>                         The main drawback here is that Travis seem to
>                         only works with Github. Other repositories are
>                         available if you pay. To use continuous
>                         integration with denemo, it is either needed
>                         to use another service or copy each revision
>                         into a github repository. Create a
>                         synchronized github clone of the savannah
>                         repository can easily be done. Jenkins for
>                         instance is a free ci system, but to use
>                         Jenkins, a dedicated host is needed.
>                         
>                         
>                         Well, I would like to know your thoughts about
>                         this. Do you like the idea ? Which service do
>                         you prefer etc. Should I commit my Travis
>                         scripts to master if someone is interested ?
>                         
>                         
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>         
>         -- 
>         Éloi Rivard - address@hidden
>                 
>         « On perd plus à être indécis qu'à se tromper. »
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