CI for FreeBSD and OpenBSD

[euantorano]

Summary

We currently have CI support for Linux, macOS and Windows. It would be nice to expand this to cover other operating systems.

Description

We currently have GitLab CI, Travis CI and AppVeyor CI, but none of these providers support FreeBSD or OpenBSD (or any other BSD for that matter).

It would be nice to expand this coverage and possibly provide pre-built binaries for these platforms.

I oppose that we use builds.sr.ht to provide CI for other platforms as they support both FreeBSD and OpenBSD and are growing rapidly so could include other platforms (and architectures!) in the future. They also have some cool features like being able to SSH in to build VMs to test builds.

Alternatives

Cirrus CI support FreeBSD, but not OpenBSD.

[cheatfate]

@euantorano MacOS is actually BSD, so Travis CI can cover some of the problems here.

[euantorano]

macOS has some FreeBSD userland utilities, Utd they are still a little different, and OpenBSD is significantly different.

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On Mon, 2 Sep 2019, at 07:17, Eugene Kabanov wrote: @euantorano <https://github.com/euantorano> MacOS is actually BSD, so Travis CI can cover some of the problems here. — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#12103?email_source=notifications&email_token=AAFW24K2GNAIY3FXURZFN6LQHSVWRA5CNFSM4ISWXYIKYY3PNVWWK3TUL52HS4DFVREXG43VMVBW63LNMVXHJKTDN5WW2ZLOORPWSZGOD5U2E6I#issuecomment-527016569>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAFW24JZ5VYMJ6OUUBQ5MODQHSVWRANCNFSM4ISWXYIA>.

[cheatfate]

@euantorano but Nim language and stdlib do not interact with utilities. We using some syscalls and posix. Or you are talking about Nim's bootstrap process?

[euantorano]

I’m talking about bootstrapping on FreeBSD. See my PR linked to this issue for some of the OpenBSD issues I’ve found so far.

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On Mon, 2 Sep 2019, at 07:21, Eugene Kabanov wrote: @euantorano <https://github.com/euantorano> but Nim language and stdlib do not interact with utilities. We using some syscalls and posix. Or you are talking about Nim's bootstrap process? — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#12103?email_source=notifications&email_token=AAFW24KB2VD4ZWGWH4LFO4LQHSWG5A5CNFSM4ISWXYIKYY3PNVWWK3TUL52HS4DFVREXG43VMVBW63LNMVXHJKTDN5WW2ZLOORPWSZGOD5U2MCA#issuecomment-527017480>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAFW24MIU5IG26OAMVHP3N3QHSWG5ANCNFSM4ISWXYIA>.

[euantorano]

(for an example of a FreeBSD bootstrapping problem, see here... 😉)