Re: [boost] Docker environment(s) for Boost Development

Subject: Re: [boost] Docker environment(s) for Boost Development
From: Mateusz Loskot (mateusz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-07-26 17:12:47

On 26 July 2018 at 01:36, Tom Kent via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 4:17 AM, Mateusz Loskot via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> Boost - Dev mailing list wrote
>> > On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 6:59 AM, James E. King, III via Boost <boost_at_.boost> wrote:
>> >> I submitted a pull request into the superproject containing some docker
>> >> scripts.  The intention of this is to simplify managing a docker build
>> >> environment for boost:
>> >>
>> >> https://github.com/boostorg/boost/pull/184
>> >>
>> >> [...]
>> >> This partially came out of the discussion we had a number of months back
>> >> about how we handle third party dependencies.  For the most part one has
>> >> to
>> >> look at README files in various locations to learn about them.  This is
>> >> an
>> >> attempt to pull all the dependencies together for a complete build into
>> >> one
>> >> place (the Dockerfile).
>> >
>> > I just wanted to mention that I've got a stable of boost docker images
>> > available at:
>> > https://hub.docker.com/r/teeks99/boost-cpp-docker/
>> >
>> > built from the git repo:
>> > https://github.com/teeks99/boost-cpp-docker
>> >
>> > I initially created these as the source for the linux regression runners
>> > that I manage (teeks99-02*, teeks99-03*)
>>
>> Tom,
>>
>> Do you also automated running the regression tests?
>>
>> Could you explain your workflow with those docker images
>> you perform to run the complete Boost regression tests suite?
>
>
> [...]
> As far as how I use them in the regression tests, I've got a bit of tooling
> setup here:
> https://github.com/teeks99/boost-build/tree/master/Regression
>
> It is mostly just a couple python scripts that continuously cycle between
> configurations and the lists of configs that I want to run on each machine,
> windows and linux.

This looks like something I've been looking for/thinking of.
I'm going to try it out in action soonish.

Thanks for sharing.

Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net