[vlc-devel] [PATCH] CI: use newer gcc for windows builds

Konstantin Pavlov thresh at videolan.org
Wed Jun 3 23:36:13 CEST 2020


On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 07:03:56PM +0300, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Le keskiviikkona 3. kesäkuuta 2020, 18.31.19 EEST Tristan Matthews a écrit :
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 11:26 AM Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Nothing to say for or against this patch but...
> > > Shouldn't CI be a separate git tree?
> > 
> > Seems pretty standard to have CI incorporated directly in the repo,
> > otherwise you'd need some external way of detecting git activity and
> > reacting, which strikes me as more cumbersome.
> 
> That seems reasonable for a centralised VCS. But for a decentralised VCS such 
> as Git, I don't really see how that works, as there are no particular reasons 
> why downstreams would use the same CI rules.

Which downstreams use the same CI rules as we do?

We even place the CI rules in a non-standard place so it wont be picked up
by a third-party gitlab instance without manually configuring it to do so.

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