Sorry if this derails the thread, but what is the relative workload tradeoff to infra/builds of maintaining two slaves vs giving windows projects their own Azure VM so they can install whatever they want?
Thanks, -Alex On 5/11/14 11:56 PM, "Martin Veith" <martin.ve...@bmw-carit.de> wrote: >Hi Gav, > >I just tried to switch from windows1 to windows2 in our >"etch-trunk-windows-x86-experimental" job. >What I can see so far is that "ant" is not installed. > >As you are then already on the Windows machine maybe you could help us >also with the missing Visual Studio version >= 2010 (see INFRA-6717 and >some mails on builds@a.o). We have been already waiting for it half a >year... > >Thanks a lot! >Martin > >On So, Mai 11, 2014 at 11:13:42, Gavin McDonald wrote: >> >> Thanks Andrew, >> >> To expand slightly, we all know that windows2 is lagging behind >> windows1 in terms of what project dependencies are installed on it. >> But please DO use windows2 and email here to have any dependencies >> installed to get us all to a state where your builds will pass >> (normally) on both slaves. >> >> Thanks >> >> Gav... >> >> On 08/05/2014, at 7:04 PM, Andrew Bayer <andrew.ba...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> > If you've got a job on builds.apache.org that runs on Windows, >> > please make sure it's set to run on the "Windows" label, not a >> > specific node >> > - your job will end up blocked if it's just tied to one. >> > >> > A. > > >
