Re: [PATCH 6/7] .gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml: Unify the prerequisite packages

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 29/10/2022 15.06, Bin Meng wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2022 at 5:20 PM Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 10, 2022 at 8:32 AM Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, Sep 10, 2022 at 12:32 AM Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 08/09/2022 15.28, Bin Meng wrote:
>>>>> From: Bin Meng <bin.meng@windriver.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> At present the prerequisite packages for 64-bit and 32-bit builds
>>>>> are slightly different. Let's use the same packages for both.
>>>>
>>>> Not sure whether that's a good idea ... I did that on purpose to save some
>>>> few time during compilation (since the Windows jobs are running very long
>>>> already) ... did you check whether it makes a difference in the run time now?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Not much difference on the build time. Actually I found after we
>>> switched to single thread build the time did not increase too.
>>>
>>> One side note regarding the gitlab shared runner:
>>>
>>> It seems the shared runner Windows VM is quite slow. Is it possible to
>>> get a faster VM externally?
>>
>> Any further comment for this patch?
>>
> 
> Ping?

As long as the Windows CI runners are still that slow, I'm still not 
convinced that it is a good idea to add more stuff here. Maybe to the 32-bit 
build, since it runs a bit faster, but I think we really should avoid to 
extend the 64-bit build.

  Thomas