drone CI discussion

[timotheecour]

links

• https://knapsackpro.com/ci_comparisons/drone/vs/github-actions

  The cloud version is free for open source projects. Also offers a free plan for any project, with a limit of 5000 builds per year. The on-premise version is available as a Docker image.

• https://github.com/go-training/docker-in-github-actions-vs-drone
• https://github.com/drone/drone
• https://www.drone.io/enterprise/opensource/#features
• https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/16396 which introduces drone CI in nim repo

platforms:

Linux x64
Linux armv7
Linux armv8
Windows x86

[timotheecour]

@alaviss I didn't want to discuss this in your PR, but just curious about your rationale for using drone instead of, say, docker via github actions (GA); is it:

• because it'd be easier to write docker based pipelines in drone vs GA?
• because it gives us more parallelism without affect our quota with GA?
• because of the above platform support (armv7, armv8 notably)?
• something else?

note

I've added drone integration for nim-lang/nim, see https://cloud.drone.io/nim-lang/Nim/settings

TODO

add badge in nim's README:

[![Build Status](https://cloud.drone.io/api/badges/nim-lang/Nim/status.svg?ref=refs/heads/devel)](https://cloud.drone.io/nim-lang/Nim)

[alaviss]

because of the above platform support (armv7, armv8 notably)?

Yep, and because it has those for free