Re: [PATCH v2] travis-ci: build and test Git on Windows

[Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>]

> On 24 Mar 2017, at 12:48, Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2017, Lars Schneider wrote:
> 
>> Most Git developers work on Linux and they have no way to know if their changes would break the Git for Windows build. Let's fix that by adding a job to TravisCI that builds and tests Git on Windows. Unfortunately, TravisCI does not support Windows.
> 
> Forgive me for bursting in and possibly repeating what you've already discussed. I just read about the limitations for doing windows builds via travis so I thought I'd at least let you know that you can avoid those limitations without too much work:

You are not bursting in - I am happy to get your feedback! Thanks a lot for CURL BTW :-)


> Two alternative approaches would be:
> 
> 1. use appveyor.com, as that is a Travis-like service for Windows. We do our
>   windows-builds in the curl project using that.

The Git for Windows build and tests are *really* resources intensive and they
take a lot of setup time. AFAIK we would run into timeouts with AppVeyor.
Maybe Sebastian or Dscho know details?


> 2. run your own buildbot and submit data using the regular github hook and
>   have buildbot submit the results back (it has a plugin that can do that).
>   We do solaris-builds in the curl project using that method (thanks to
>   opencsw.org) and some additional windows-builds thanks to private
>   individuals.

We could do that! However, the idea was to have the entire build status 
for all platforms in one place.


- Lars