I want some simple CI for a small dev setup. Two motivations — a full build takes some time, and an anticipated testsuite will also take some time. I really would rather not dive headfirst into one of the big players that require a java application container or whatever to show fancy graphs with multiple colors and etc. I’d be interested in something “culturally” Haskellish in particular — preferably command line interaction or config files, and interop with Darcs is the absolute must.
Do any such tools exist, or am I stuck with one of the big players or writing my own?
Speaking of which, I recall that there’s a build farm set up for GHC. Looking at it, I notice that it used to use buildbot and now uses a custom builder. Although those are set up for a different workflow, would either of them be a simpler, more straightforward solution?
Edit: I’m going with buildbot for now. Will update with how it works out.
Edit2: Ben Lippmeier has put buildbox on hackage, which also seems to be the foundation for a native Haskell CI solution. It is currently underdocumented, and probably not feature complete for my needs, but here it is: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/buildbox. He’s used it to write a buildbot for repa: http://code.haskell.org/repa/repa-head/repa-bot/.
The darcs team itself uses buildbot. I’m not certain off the top of my head where the scripts live, but I’m sure if you ask on the mailing list or IRC they should be easy to get hold of.