Re: Symlinks for nightly tarballs, Windows builds via Appveyor CI platform

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Ramiro Morales <[email protected]> wrote:
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> I've found the files published under ftp://ftp.freetds.org/pub/freetds/ and their symlinks suffer from some issues:
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> a. In current/ subdir: Newest snapshot as of now is freetds-dev.0.92.1014.tar.gz created on Apr 9 2015 which seems to be correct as the last commit to master branch is around such date but the freetds-current.tgz tarball actually poins to freetds-dev.0.92.990 from March 24.
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> b. (nitpick) no freetds-current.tar.bz2 symlink is published.


One more I forgot:

c. In stable/ subdir: The freetds-patched.tgz symlink points to an old
snapshot from the Branch-0_91 branch as of Jun 24 2012 (it contanins a
freetds-0.91.dev.20120624/ tree). It'd great if it pointed to a
tarball of the actual tip of such branch.

> [...]
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> Something similar can be implemented for Linux CI builds using services of other similar companies like TravisCI/CircleCI, but in these cases test suite execution would need to be pointed to a SQL Server instance hosted somewhere else just like Marc Abramowitz implemented for pymssql some time ago.


I see now there has been already work on this
https://travis-ci.org/FreeTDS/freetds/branches by Marc and other
individuals.

Regards,

-- 
Ramiro Morales
@ramiromorales