Announcing the IcedTea Buildbot
Over the last few weeks Xerxes and I have been experimenting with a buildbot setup which you can see at: http://builder.classpath.org/icedtea/buildbot/waterfall
It does various builds on ia32, x86_64 and arm buildslaves whenever a commit is pushed to icedtea6, icedtea7, icedtea-web or the testrepo. The slaves also test various alternative runtime setups (cacao, shark, zero). By doing continuous builds on all these various setups we hope to keep the projects green at all times.
More information and how to help extend the current setup on the mailing list.
Looks really good! Does GNU Classpath have such a builder set up somewhere as well?
It used to have a lot of build scripts, but when we shut down the old builder, we didn’t resurrect the scripts. You can see some of the results at http://builder.classpath.org/old-builder/
Those scripts actually live in the mauve cvs: http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/builder/scripts/?cvsroot=mauve I am hoping to turn them into buildbot setups. The current incarnation of those scripts really isn’t manageable nor do they make it easy to do distributed builds.
Right. Looking at the old builder results, it would be really interesting to see GNU Classpath API scores against 1.6 and upcoming 1.7 as well.