Re: Upcoming CI changes - transition to VM based CI

On Tue, Jun 3, 2025 at 11:23 PM Sune Vuorela <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2025-06-03, Ben Cooksley <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Not sure why we're wanting to monitor for compilation on an Ubuntu LTS
> > specifically, would have thought that was something best watched by our
> > Appimage CD builds. Those are currently performed on a SLES image.
>
> The purpose is to test that one can do application development on a
> not too new released Linux without having to build the entire stack
> from Qt and up.
>

I see. Makes sense to a certain extent, certainly within the application
context.


> It builds with distribution provided Frameworks and Qt, rather than what
> our CI does: master or something close to master.
>

Frameworks would be the last successful build of master at the time the
build started.
Qt would depend on the job in question.


>
> The choice of Ubuntu I think is slightly random and could probably be
> changed to something else from RedHat, Debian or Suse without upsetting
> any one, but it should still using packages for everything.
> I guess the selection was Ubuntu due to whatever whoever did it
> initially felt most comfortable with.


> /Sune
>
>
Cheers,
Ben