Re: Do we still want develop branch?

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2023-11-06 15:35:50

Andrey Semashev wrote:
> On 11/6/23 14:30, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
> > John Maddock wrote:
> >> A typical example - clang on ubuntu jammy just stopped working - the
> >> cause was an update of the system default compiler from gcc-12 to gcc-13
> >> which rendered the clang version we were testing non-functional.  The
> >> solution is to do what you would tell a user to do - update the clang
> >> version to one that can handle gcc-13's std lib!
> >
> > Or just use the ubuntu:22.04 container instead of GHA's image.
> >
> > Given that the GHA images break something every so often, I'm starting
> > to think that we should just use containers for everything and isolate
> > ourselves from the changes in the base images.
> 
> I suspect, Docker has its overhead. Apart from downloading the Docker
> image (is it cached? who knows), setting it up for testing usually
> requires installation of more packages. Furthermore, I'm not sure if
> that package downloading is backed by GHA cache (probably not), which
> means you're pulling packaged from Ubuntu repos instead of the GHA local
> cache, which is configured in the GHA images. I don't need to remind you
> that network issues often cause spurious CI failures, which means the
> less network activity the better.

That's why I've been (irrationally) avoiding containers as much as possible,
but I suspect that none of the above is true in practice.