Re: Behold! Buildbot's waterfall display has never been so green

[John W. Eaton]

On 11/11/2017 02:58 PM, mmuetzel wrote:
> The Windows cross builds could also need some love :)
> Summary:
>
>    PASS                            15807
>    FAIL                                1
>    REGRESSION                          4
>    XFAIL (expected failure)            5
>    XFAIL (reported bug)               34
>    SKIPPED (feature)                  58
>    SKIPPED (run-time condition)       26
>
> Those 4 regressions are bug 45507. The fail is intermittent for
> "__opengl_info__ ()".
>
> fntests_fails.log
> <http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/file/t371856/fntests_fails.log>

True.

I'd like to add testing for the Windows builds.  Since they are cross 
compiled, we'll need to do something like this once the nsis installer 
or zip file is built:

  * start a VM running windows that can accept shell commands over an 
ssh network connection

  * transfer the nsis installer or zip file

  * run the installer or unpack the zip file

  * run the octave tests

This could be one or more buildbot steps.  I'm not exactly sure how to 
make the first part work.  It would be nice if it could use virtualbox 
since that's what I already use but other solutions would also be OK if 
someone can show me what to do.

jwe