Re: CI integration for Octave on OSX

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Dec 3, 2014, at 8:50 AM, Mike Miller <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 09:28:53 -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>> I asked the GNU folks. This target would build Octave on Mac OS X
>> (it's not really Darwin, that OS doesn't exist anymore). I'm not sure
>> how useful it would be, because the resulting binary depends on the
>> entirety of the Nix system. I also don't know what compiler it's
>> building with, so if we see build failures, it might not be that
>> useful. It's probably some version of Xcode.
> 
> Ok, thanks for looking into that. It might be useful just as one more
> automated build test case, but ultimately probably not what we really
> want for builds on OS X, since it would depend on the rest of the Nix
> package system, which sounds like yet another different environment
> from stock OS X or macports or homebrew or ...
> 
> Brad, Carlo, is the main intent to produce build logs and bug reports,
> or to produce an end-user-installable app/dmg/whatever? It would be
> good to define up front what the goal of this CI system will be.

I understand the goal to be "end-user-installable app/dmg/whatever".

It may be necessary to have multiple "apps" for different versions of OS X, is 
there a policy in place for backward compatibility?

--
Brad

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