On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@anonymised.com>
wrote:
Andrea,
how broken are the GeoSolutions Windows builds?
Hard to say, we only get failures in one module and then the build stops.
I'd say at least a couple in GeoTools, but
there can be more.
Without them we have no Windows unit test coverage. I want to tinker with
URLs.urlToFile [GEOT-5738] but it contains a bunch of Windows-specific
cases and I am reluctant to touch them without unit test coverage:
https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/browse/GEOT-5738
Any objection to me turning on the Windows builds? My login still works. I
will disable email notification.
Personally no objection, but I don't know how busy that machine is. Simone,
do you know?
geotools-master last ran one month ago and last passed 11 months ago. The
last failures were rendering differences in gt-svg:
org.geotools.renderer.lite.DrawTest.testParametricOnlyFill
java.lang.AssertionError: Images are visibly different, found 64708
different pixels, against a threshold of 1000
org.geotools.renderer.lite.DrawTest.testParametricAllValues
java.lang.AssertionError: Images are visibly different, found 64749
different pixels, against a threshold of 1000
Many if not most beginners start on Windows. I heard that at the CalGIS
GeoServer session, 90% of users were on Windows. Is there any point in
shipping Windows builds if we do not run the tests?
Lots of it, since we are programming in Java and failures are often in the
test itself. There are several production environments that are working on
Windows, we are "simply" lacking someone that gives a damn about it outside
of paid contracts. In other words, we need a core developer working on that
platform.
I already served that role for years (around 10 years ago, for some 2-3
years), and tried again for around 6 months a couple of years ago.
Not looking forward to repeat it, Windows just does not agree with me (that
said, I'm available to spend working hours time on such environment, on a
as needed basis) 
All the feedback we have is patient bug reporting from users (especially
Jukka).
I believe we're still making due in a decent way, even it's a long shot
away from being ideal.
Cheers
Andrea
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