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Hi Ben,
Can we please disable Windows CI? I've spent more time fighting the CI than doing useful work this week, it's really frustrating.
Yes, this recent spate is issues indeed took too long to solve. Unfortunately this particular issue took quite a while to isolate since I had trouble reproducing it as it depended upon which CI builder the job ran on. However, I eventually found and pushed a patch to fix the root cause this morning.
Since we have no idea how to fix it maybe we should test Windows only before a release, manually (and use bisect in case of regressions).
As pointed out by Tamar, this really is not a viable option. In truth, the pain we are experiencing now is precisely because we neglected Windows support for so long. I am now making a concerted effort to fix this and, while it has been painful, we are gradually approaching a half-way decent story for Windows. x86-64 is, as of this morning, believed to be mostly stable; I'm now working on i386. Cheers, - Ben