Do you want auto releases?

[JLLeitschuh]

Do you want auto releases every time a PR is merged so that the plugin doesn't have tons of fixes over months but never a stable release?

This will allow you to simply maintain the project through merges without having to deal with performing regular releases.

This can be configured through travis CI by using encrypted variables that are only accessible on a build run against master.

[dmarcuse]

To be honest I don't see the point. If you did a release for every single commit to master you'd end up with a lot of releases, and if users need to get a specific change that hasn't been released yet it's trivial to build the project from source.

[Wojbie]

True. But many people don't know how to use gradle or even anything about making cc mods.. Having an automated weekly build would make it more accessible to random people on internet so they can find bugs.

[dmarcuse]

Automated weekly builds make sense, but one for every commit would be excessive IMO.

[JLLeitschuh]

I can set it up to run daily, weekly, or monthly easily. Or any variance of that, (you'd just check to see if the day is some modulo of some multiple and skip a release if it's not).

https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/cron-jobs/

Weekly makes sense.

[Wojbie]

It might sounds wired but does it skip the release if there was no commits since last one? Because there can be sometimes a week or 2 when project stalls cause people are working on stuff and making extra weekly one makes no sense then.

[oddstr13]

With Jenkins, you can set it up to check for changes in the git repo using crontab-like syntax;

[JLLeitschuh]

@dan200 I want your feedback before I try to implement this.

[CrazedProgrammer]

I made a cron job on my server to build and package a redistribution (with SquidDev's modified build.gradle) of the main repository every 3 hours (starting at 0:30).
You can find it at https://crzd.me/files/ComputerCraft-nightly.zip There is also a maven repository for it at https://crzd.me/files/maven/ (the xml is located at https://crzd.me/files/maven/dan200/computercraft/ComputerCraft/maven-metadata-local.xml).

I'm waiting on PR https://github.com/dan200/ComputerCraft/pull/184 to get merged, so I can also release this on the forums.

[JLLeitschuh]

I'd ideally like to see that the releases get published through the official channels:

• here on github through tagged releases
• also with whatever curse publishing that exist
• anywhere else @dan200 wants release jars published

[CrazedProgrammer]

Yeah I can see that being the optimal solution for releases.
This redistribution is just so people can use the absolute latest build of CC.

[Restioson]

I don't know how ideal this is. If new PR's are merged but not tested, this could break things. If we made tests and built if all tests passed, that could work... Nightly is excessive though. Once a week sounds good.

[vico93]

@CrazedProgrammer these builds are for 1.9.4/1.10 or also works in 1.11.x?

[SquidDev]

@vpontin Just 1.9.4/1.10.2 at the moment. There is a 1.11.2 PR in the works.

[vico93]

Oh thanks @SquidDev ! I'll stick with unborked until builds for 1.11 be possible

[CrazedProgrammer]

Hi guys.
Yesterday I made a script that clones and (tries to) build every PR in this repo.
You can see it at https://crzd.me/files/ComputerCraft-PRs/ though it is a mess of files. The jars are usually located at /ComputerCraft/build/libs.
Not every build succeeds, and if this directory is empty then you'll be better off cloning and building it yourself.
Hope this is useful!

[Restioson]

@CrazedProgrammer *tests my pr*. This is really useful! Thanks! However, the downloads are marked as "uncommonly downloaded" in Chrome (at least for my PR)

[CrazedProgrammer]

Well, technically they are uncommonly downloaded :P

[Restioson]

True... 😛