Re: Meld on Windows

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 23 June 2017 at 09:27, Andrew Beyer <beyer andrew gmail com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 2:54 PM, Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>
> wrote:
> > My main concern here is that I'd prefer something where we could keep
> > build config in the repo (mostly for bus factor reasons). The cost isn't a
> > huge deal, but if it can be cheap enough that I don't really have to care
> > (or free) then so much the better. Mainly, this just doesn't really *need*
> > to be CI; it can be manually triggered and/or happen on a release trigger.
>
>
> I don't want to bikeshed this too much, so feel free to ignore if it's not
> helpful: But given that you just want to do this manually/on release, would
> it make more sense to just use one of the existing windows base images for
> vagrant and spin up a local vm w/ some provisioning and a batch file or
> msbuild project or whatever to kick off the build inside that? It would
> require someone to have virtualbox locally when doing the build, but that's
> free and not too onerous, and avoids the whole configuring/maintaining a
> cloud service of some sort...you'd just have a vagrantfile and the
> provisioning/build scripts in the repo that way.

I meant to respond to this, sorry!

Yeah that's technically an option, though unless I misunderstand their
use, this would still require a Windows license of some nature. I'm
not against doing this otherwise.

I'm also totally happy to carry config for different building options
in a win32/ folder in the repo, as long as they're maintained and not
a real maintenance burden.

cheers,
Kai