2014-06-19 1:53 GMT+02:00 Austin Seipp
We actually already do have both of these already, too: Joachim Breitner for example has set us up a Travis-CI[1] setup, while Gabor Pali has set us up nightly builds[2]. Travis-CI does the job of fast CI, but it's not good for a few reasons: [..] 3) It has limited platform support - only recently did it have OS X, and Windows is not yet in sight. Ditto for FreeBSD. These are crucial for CI as well, as they encompass all our Tier-1 platforms. This could be fixed with cross compilation, but again, that's a big, big project.
Regarding FreeBSD, I am fine with having only the nightly builds for them. Fortunately, it is seldom the case when something is broken due to some platform-specific setting.
So I'll also make a suggestion: just to actually get something that will pull GHC's repo every 10 minutes or so, do a build, and then email ghc-devs *only* if failures pop up.
Yeah, this could be done by the nightly builders. They have a "Continuous" build mode (thanks to Ian) which probably means that they will start over the same process as soon as the current one has finished. I wrote "probably" because I have not ever tried it but saw it in the sources :-) I think sending mails in case of failures only could be also done somehow, but that may require some changes to the sources.