[cffi-devel] Unit tests failures on different lisps

[Jeffrey Cunningham]

On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:23:44 -0800, Anton Vodonosov <avodonosov at yandex.ru>  
wrote:

>
>
> 29.12.2011, 04:29, "Luís Oliveira" <luismbo at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Is there a way to take advantage of your buildfarm such that I can
>> test CFFI versions before doing a release or before even pushing to
>> the main repository?
>
> Not yet, because I am in the beginning of the project and only
> starting to see the first results (it's not really a buildfarm, but
> a small system where anyone may run a simple command, like
> (load "agent.lisp"), and it runs the tests and submits the results
> to the central server; so that we will be able to accumulate
> the statictics; currently this command just runs tests on
> whatever is the current quicklisp distribution is installed
> on the system, and I am the only person who runs this command
> - I am testing how it works and polishing the corner cases).
>
> The ability for library authors to express a wish to run tests on the
> recent (not released) version is one of the important future goals.
> There is no decision yet on how it will be specified, we may discuss it.
>  I will contact you when (hopefully) I ready for this.
>
> Best regards,
> - Anton
>

This is really good. I wonder if it mightn't be easier to set up a number  
of VM's under something like VirtualBox in a way which would allow  
automated testing with simpler intra-platform communications. Can you  
publish any of your test scripts? I'd like to perform the experiment.

Best regards,
Jeff