Re: GitHub automation for Cygwin builds [Was: Updated: moreutils v0.65-1]

[Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>]

On 16.01.2021 23:31, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 1/16/2021 3:33 PM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
>> On Sat, 16 Jan 2021 at 20:22, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
>>> Version 0.65-1 of moreutils has been uploaded and should be coming
>>> soon to a distribution server near you.

> 
> I assume you're quoting from https://cygwin.com/packaging/build.html.  
> Scallywag does have some limitations currently, but I think the 
> statement you quoted is obsolete.  I often have Scallywag deploy my 
> packages, as does Jon Turney.
> 
> The limitations I've bumped into are:
> 
> 1. Scallywag will time out after an hour on each arch

until now I was hit only during test. But I stil need to
deploy on our Git some of the heavy packages

> 
> 2. Several of my packages fail to build on x86 because of gcc crashes.

3. sometimes the failure is not in the build, but in missing or 
imperfect testing

> 
> I think these limitations are outweighed by the fact that a Scallywag 
> build is automatically triggered by a push to an official source repo 
> (https://cygwin.com/packaging/repos.html).  All maintainers can use this 
> without any special setup.

+1

> Ken

but of course Adam, more options are always better,

Thank for sharing
Marco