Re: Continuous integration

[Phillip Lord]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> 4) In addition to gnu/linux, can we provide a windows and mac builder,
>> given that this would by necessity involve non-free software (i.e. the
>> OSes).
>
> FWIW, I have heard rumors that you can build several Windows programs
> under GNU/Linux (and I guess that's why Debian includes a mingw32
> package).  Not sure if Emacs falls into this category.  At least I know
> it's possible to *run* the w32 version of Emacs under GNU/Linux using
> Wine (last time I used it, it suffered from some quirks but was good
> enough for me to reproduce a bug locally).

That may be true, but even if it works, it's not testing the windows
build, it's testing a windows like build.

Phil