Re: Continuous integration tests also for MacOS and Windows

[Jeremy Lavergne]

On "make check": I do that prior to committing the changes to MacPorts 
(there's usually just 5 skipped tests and everything else passes).

In combination with Travis CI, MacPorts also has buildbot setup to 
create packaging for a combination of architecture and OS versions.




On 7/30/20 2:53 AM, Friedrich Beckmann wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> sure - it would be nice to have CI for MacOS and Windows too. I do my pspp 
> development on my Macbook laptop and I do not have a „networked“ Mac somewhere. 
> As Jeremy mentioned macports uses travis-ci - I am not sure if they run „make 
> check“ during the test build. For MacOS there are two ways to install pspp
>
> a) via macports
> b) via install bundle
>
> It tried to describe the differences here: 
> https://www.hs-augsburg.de/homes/beckmanf/pspp/ „Technology and Build process“
> The main obstacle for macports is that you need to install an Apple XCode 
> Compiler and the macports environment before you can install pspp.
>
> If I remember correctly Harry builds the windows version as a cross compile 
> from linux and the test suite does not run on Windows.
>
> Fritz