[Scons-dev] D tool development workflow

[Russel Winder]

On Fri, 2017-04-21 at 09:41 -0700, Bill Deegan wrote:
> Russel,
> 
> At present I'm spending all my available energy and time on getting
> py2+py3
> working.
> Once that is done, then we can look at migrating the bug tracker, but
> not
> before.

Exactly, getting the Python 3 stuff finished clearly takes higher
priority than anything just now, it is the current sprint. I'll see if
I can take a look at more this weekend.

Next week is ACCU so I'll likely be unable to do anything constructive
on any project.  https://conference.accu.org/site/

> That said, I'm thinking post 3 a migration to github could have some
> real
> value.
> (And git, I'm tired of using HG on only this project)

I would find workflow very much easier using Git rather than Mercurial
for this project. The issue for me is in-repository transient branches
for short-lived feature branches.  With my knowledge of Mercurial,
whilst nice for individual use, is a pain for managing a mainline clone
and multiple feature branches.

I am happy using BitBucket, but would also be happy with GitHub, or
even GitLab.

> Also note that buildbot (our current ci http://buildbot.scons.org/ )
> is
> capable of pushing ci status to bitbucket (and github as
> well).  Travis-CI
> builds work for plain python builds, but very unlikely the
> VM/Containers
> the tests are run in will have many of the installed tools we use in
> many
> tests, and also most likely not have any MSVS versions installed..

I think this discussion should switch to an own thread. The advantage
of Travis-CI if we can get away with it is having various OS
installations. For the D tools, it is possible to create a build matrix
for all eight variations of D compiler.

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Russel.
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