Re: CI integration for Octave on OSX

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Dec 4, 2014, at 6:12 AM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:

>> On Dec 3, 2014, at 10:18 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> On Dec 3, 2014, at 11:48 AM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>>> On Dec 3, 2014, at 1:11 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 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?
>>> 
>>> Are you asking about OS compatibility? Meaning "Should a bundle created on 
>>> Mavericks run on Yosemite?"
>>> 
>>> I think that would be preferred. The bundle I created on Lion still runs 
>>> for me on Yosemite.
>> 
>> Yes, that is what I mean. As Apple and others have moved to clang/libc++ 
>> there were some "migration pains". As I understand it Lion and Mountain Lion 
>> had a mixture of gcc/clang/libstdc++/libc++ and are somewhat harder to 
>> support. Snow Leopard (last to contain rosetta/carbon/ppc compatibility) is 
>> probably easy to support as well as Mavericks forward. I'm no expert on 
>> these issues but I have read many hundreds of emails over the years 
>> discussing the issues presented by the move from gcc/libstdc++ to 
>> clang/libc++.
>> 
>> My main reason for asking is my intention to setup some vm's to allow us to 
>> collaborate on a solution. I have a base image for Mavericks I have been 
>> using for some KDE and MariaDB projects so I'll just start with that.
> 
> I think it is ok to require Mac OS >= 10.9. Can Octave and the dependencies 
> be built to support all x86_64 hardware (Core2Duo, i5, i7, etc)?

Yes.

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Brad

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