On 1/23/21 2:20 PM, John Maddock via Boost wrote:
I have no solution for this, but I note that neither do we have CI, nor tests on https://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/developer/summary.html that aren't Intel x86. The compiler list has shrunk to msvc/clang/gcc as well.
I note that at least in theory, other platforms/architectures could be integrated into Drone CI (either the CppAlliance one, or our own), but someone would have to offer to host the clients running the tests.
Any thoughts/solutions?
As a maintainer of Boost.Atomic, I would appreciate more hardware architectures, especially ARM. The real hardware is not mandatory for this, as it could be emulated with QEMU, although the performance would suffer (but could still be acceptable). Currently, I'm running this setup locally. The question is who is going to run these QEMU VMs in the cloud and how much it will cost.