New Trunk Image: Squeak4.2-10382-alpha

> Would be nice if someone set up an automated build system ...
>
> - Bert -
>
> On 20.09.2010, at 13:01, Hannes Hirzel wrote:
>
>> Casey,
>>
>> may I ask you if it is possible to do a new trunk image? The last one
>> is of August 20th with #10382, the one before is May, 25th, #10160 and
>> now we are at #10529.
>>
>> Regards
>> Hannes
>>
>> On 8/20/10, Casey Ransberger <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>> Get it here:
>>>
>>> http://ftp.squeak.org/trunk/Squeak4.2-10382-alpha.zip
>>>
>>> Also note that I've left the previous build, Squeak4.2-10160-alpha.zip, in
>>> place, just in case anyone finds anything terribly wrong with the new one.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Casey Ransberger
>>>
>>

> Hannes,
>
> up to now I only had time to install the hudson server (on a virtual
> machine) and to look/run the examples provided by Lukas. Next I'm
> trying to convert the script that I had to automatically update a
> Squeak image (without hudson) into some script that can be used in
> combination hudson.
>
> Alex
>
> 2010/9/27 Hannes Hirzel <[hidden email]>:
>> Alex,
>>
>> any news on this issue?
>>
>> You wrote last Monday that you have hudson
>> (http://wiki.hudson-ci.org/display/HUDSON/Meet+Hudson) up an running
>> on your local machine?
>>
>> Do you have a configuration to build a trunk image?
>>
>> I assume that some people would like to try it out as well.....
>>
>> Regards
>> --Hannes
>>
>> On 9/20/10, Alexander Lazarević <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>> Yanni,
>>>
>>> thanks for the valuable hints. I have hudson up and running. Now I try
>>> to follow Lukas and your instructions hopefully with first results by
>>> the end of the week.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>  Alex
>>>
>>> 2010/9/20 Yanni Chiu <[hidden email]>:
>>>> I did it a few months back (http://hudson.jooshr.org/), but eventually I
>>>> had
>>>> to disable the daily building, because I could not maintain it - new
>>>> updates
>>>> would invariably somehow cause a build failure.
>>>>
>>>> Due to differences (at the time) in SUnit between Squeak and Pharo, I had
>>>> to
>>>> hack up the build scripts and select compatible versions of the automated
>>>> build code (HudsonBuildTools.mcz). The result today is that it's neither
>>>> synced up with the latest Pharo build scripts, nor is it able to build the
>>>> latest Squeak. I'll be sync'ing up to the latest build scripts, shortly, I
>>>> hope.
>>>>
>>>> If anyone is setting this up, I'd suggest they start with setting up the
>>>> equivalent of a one-click build for Squeak. You would provide a pre-built
>>>> image for this build, probably built manually using whatever means are
>>>> currently used.
>>>>
>>>> You do not need a server to do the build - I run Hudson on my laptop,
>>>> doing
>>>> several builds a day sometimes. You can then upload the result to the
>>>> Squeak
>>>> download area. For whoever is taking on the build task, it brings
>>>> consistency and ease.
>>>>
>>>> The next step would be to automate the building of the image from the
>>>> updates. The scripting is the easy part, the hard part is a "cultural"
>>>> change in the community. Unless contributors are agreeable to unattended
>>>> builds (i.e. no UI, or no UI interaction required), the build server will
>>>> regularly fail to produce a useful build image. During load and test,
>>>> there
>>>> can be no user dialogs that pop up that require a button press.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Yanni
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Right. Someone just needs to Do It :)
>>>>>
>>>>> - Bert -
>>>>>
>>>>> On 20.09.2010, at 14:28, Enrico Spinielli wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Lukas did something very useful IMHO.
>>>>>> http://hudson.lukas-renggli.ch/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 13:37, Bert Freudenberg <[hidden email]>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Would be nice if someone set up an automated build system ...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - Bert -
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 20.09.2010, at 13:01, Hannes Hirzel wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Casey,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> may I ask you if it is possible to do a new trunk image? The last one
>>>>>>>> is of August 20th with #10382, the one before is May, 25th, #10160 and
>>>>>>>> now we are at #10529.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>>>> Hannes
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 8/20/10, Casey Ransberger <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Get it here:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> http://ftp.squeak.org/trunk/Squeak4.2-10382-alpha.zip
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Also note that I've left the previous build,
>>>>>>>>> Squeak4.2-10160-alpha.zip, in
>>>>>>>>> place, just in case anyone finds anything terribly wrong with the new
>>>>>>>>> one.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>> Casey Ransberger
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Enrico Spinielli
>>>>>> "Do Androids dream of electric sheep?"— Philip K. Dick
>>>>>> "Hear and forget; see and remember;do and understand."—Mitchel Resnick
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>

>
> On 28.09.2010, at 18:03, Alexander Lazarević wrote:
>
>> At least some progress :)
>>
>> Build #5 was triggered by my commit to the repository, but it failed
>> because of a data timeout.
>
> Well, nice progress anyway :)
>
>> It is pretty slick to trigger a build only if there is a commit, but
>> the URL-Trigger on the squeak source repository acts immediately if
>> there is a change and so the build might start while there are some
>> commits still in progress. I guess a scheduled daily build would be a
>> little more robust choice.
>
> Daily would be sufficient I think. Or start a build when there was no commit within, say, 30 minutes.
>
>> Next thing I will have a look at, as time permits, is how to run the tests.
>
> Way to go!
>
> - Bert -
>
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