[Vm-dev] Cog VM continuous integration: update

[stephane ducasse]

> 
> Hello, all.
> 
> Last few weeks i concentrated my efforts to make Windows slave working
> and merge the updates made by Eliot and
> synchronize source with svn.

excellent.
I like when at least you get concentrated when I run around in meetings and trips.
Excellent!

> It took quite a bit time to set up windows slaves (multiple people
> were involved). I don't want to go into details, but there was some
> technical issues,
> as well as complications with connecting windows with non-windows,
> firewalls etc etc.
> At least now it is working and we can build windows VMs.

Superb.
And there is a lesson there: go a sit with people because they are nice :)

> A merge also costed me quite of a time, since Andreas reorganized
> sources and merged cross and win32 plugin codebase with squeak branch
> using of svn:externals.
> And while i, no doubt, welcome the merge, i had to spend time learning
> how i could mirror that on git.
> The only thing which i can say after this: git is superior tool. Its a
> pity that i had to waste my time fighting with svn, while its only a
> question of couple of minutes
> for developer(s) to clone sources from git and start using it instead of svn.
> 
> So, after couple of hiccups and show-stoppers now everything more-or
> less run smoothly on Hudson, (except from stack vm on win32).
> 
> Here the list of builds which currently available for download.
> 
> Mac:
> 
> Cog/Mac Carbon
> https://pharo-ic.lille.inria.fr/hudson/view/Cog/job/Cog%20Mac%20Carbon/
> 
> Stack VM/ Mac Carbon
> https://pharo-ic.lille.inria.fr/hudson/view/Cog/job/StackVM%20Mac%20Carbon/
> 
> Linux:
> Cog
> https://pharo-ic.lille.inria.fr/hudson/view/Cog/job/Cog%20Unix/
> Stack VM/ Unix
> https://pharo-ic.lille.inria.fr/hudson/view/Cog/job/Stack%20VM%20Unix/


Excellent. I learned that INRIA got an engineer that will be dedicated to Hudson.

> 
> 
> A new kid on the block Windows:
> 
> Cog/Win32
> https://pharo-ic.lille.inria.fr/hudson/view/Cog/job/CogWin32/
> 
> (the Stack VM has linking problems which is yet to be solved, see my
> post on vm-dev list)
> 
> 
> To download VM just follow one of the links and then pick the .zip with VM.
> 
> As for Mac Cocoa VMs: they are broken for now, because yet unmerged.
> Hopefully Esteban will find time to update
> his branch soon.
> 
> The next step is to run tests for built VMs. For this i planning to
> create a specialized package, which will contain code snippets for
> loading & firing off various tests,
> because currently all tests are a bunch of .st scripts, and managing
> files over dozen of networked machines is not fun.
> So, i think i will just take these snippets and put them into single
> MC package, so then it could be managed much easier.
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.