9 May
2017
9 May
'17
10:19 a.m.
Hi Harald,
I'm not quite sure if I follow your argument here.
From my point of
view, the importance is that we test build on those platforms/compilers
that most of our users actually use. So I would rather argue for
testing with (the gcc versions of) various recent releases of popular
GNU/Linux distributions or on different CPUs such as ARM, than to
introduce a compiler version that isn't even included in latest FreeBSD
(11).
Thanks for response, your point of view makes sense.
Also, as a compromise proposal: we don't
necessarily have to do it as
part of the testing of each and every commit. It might be sufficient to
do this e.g. once as part of a daily/nightly job which sends e-mails to
the author of the commit that broke?
Great idea! Let's see, what other developers think about that...
With best regards,
Vadim Yanitskiy.