> Possibly relevant: I'm co-maintainer of Octave.app, a "native" Mac app
> distribution of GNU Octave (https://octave-app.org/). It's currently built on
> top of Homebrew.
MacPorts already creates a nice Octave.app now, fyi. If you installed MP into a
custom prefix (/opt/octave, say) you could
On Jan 25, 2021, at 11:37, Clemens Lang wrote:
> I personally wouldn't have a problem with optional CI steps running on
> other people's machines, as long as that's for pull requests and we
> don't use the results anyhere but to post status information to GitHub.
There would be an advantage to
On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 at 17:02, Ruben Di Battista
wrote:
>
> Hi Ryan, thanks for your answer.
>
> If I configured a server I own to run CI jobs for old systems (I was thinking
> about using a custom Gitlab runner libvirt
> https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/executors/custom_examples/libvirt.html for
Clemens linked in some documentation to the github application runner that said
it ran on 10.13+ only.
If that's true -- not of much use for a legacy CI test runner, it would seem,
unless somehow that can still work...
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 at 15:45, Ken Cunningham wrote:
>
> Clemens linked in some documentation to the github application runner that
> said it ran on 10.13+ only.
I'm aware that most of the systems require a relatively recent macOS
(buildbot worker runs on ancient systems without any major issues
t
On Jan 27, 2021, at 06:32, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Maybe GitLab runner isn't able to run on the oldest macOS that we
> support, but if you run it on the host just to fire up a VM, that
> might be ok.
>
> I see that GitLab supports CI on top of GitHub repository:
>
> https://docs.gitlab.com/ee
I don't know Ryan. I find BuildBot pretty involved in the configuration.
The interface of Gitlab CI, the one I'm more familiar with, is way easier.
To configure a runner it's basically adding a repository on your favorite
distro, installing the gitlab-runner package, configuring it with few TOML
li
Thank you for your vigilance on the PRs list, Ken.
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021, 15:39 Ken Cunningham
wrote:
> the PR list is < 100 for the first time in a very very long time….
>
> Keep ‘er going!
>
> K
