[Insight-developers] dash14.kitware mingw build

[Bill Lorensen]

I'd vote for moving the cygwin build. mingw is lightweight and fast,

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 6:35 AM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
> dash14 is old and slow and overloaded:
> http://www.cdash.org/CDash/viewSite.php?siteid=17&project=2&currenttime=1288227600
>
> The claimed "13%" "non-CDash" time on the pie chart is really when the
> machine is trying (and not finishing) to do the dashboard in question.
> (CDash can only report on builds that have finished and submitted...)
> The ITK dashboard is starting at about 7:25 pm, and does not have time
> to finish before the machine does it's nightly reboot at 8:30 pm....
>
> The main time-consumer is the ITK cygwin dashboard on dash14:
> http://www.cdash.org/CDash/buildSummary.php?buildid=761029#Stage2
> It starts at 8:something am and finishes in the 7:00 pm hour... 11
> hours for a build. Does anybody *really* use cygwin for serious
> software development? How? It's just soooooo slow. (I'm guessing the
> mingw dashboard stopped appearing the day after somebody fixed the
> cygwin build on that machine...)
>
> The only solution that I see here is to move one of the ITK
> cygwin/mingw dashboards to other hardware.
>
> So: it's a matter of finding available hardware/compute time.
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> The subject system has not been reporting for 37 days. Mingw has a
>> fast, stable and free compiler for windows. I hope we can revive it.
>>
>> Bill
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