We need binary builds for Windows and Mac (and everything else)

[Stefan Rusek]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Chuck Kirschman
<Chuck.Kirschman at bentley.com> wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
>> So, as I posted several times back in November and December, I was
>> hoping to have regular, preferably nightly, builds for testing on all
>> the major platforms during the code freeze for the 1.2 release. We don't
>> have that.
>>
>> Today I noticed that I can't seem to even find a 1.1.2 security-fix
>> release for Windows or Mac other than the one bundled with experimental
>> TortoiseHG. This is sad.
>>
>> I am not going to release 1.2 until there are *tested pre-release binary
>> builds* of the code about to be released on compiler-deficient
>> platforms. Windows and Mac folks, please solve this.
>>
>> I'd also really like to see builds for Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, and
>> Solaris.
>>
>
> I have a cluster of Windows boxes that auto-build our products.  I would
> be willing to add the mercurial build running about every 6 hours or so.
>  However, I don't have an easy way to host the results so someone would
> have to provide a place for me to put the output via rsync or some other
> means.
>
> chuck
>
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I spent some time last night and this morning working on the problem
of windows builds, and now I have my server building them daily at
12:04am eastern. The builds and the build scripts (powershell) are
here: http://mercurial.ergonlabs.com/

Feedback is encouraged.

--Stefan
(Zephtar on IRC)