Re: Option to get a Windows installer from a Petri dish build?

[Peter Wu <peter () lekensteyn nl>]

For time time being you can create an AppVeyor account and push to GitHub. Pushing to any branch except for master will 
create an Installer in the artifacts tab.

Example:
https://ci.appveyor.com/project/Lekensteyn/wireshark

Kind regards,
Peter
https://lekensteyn.nl
(pardon my brevity, top-posting and formatting, sent from my phone)


On April 14, 2019 10:10:30 PM GMT+01:00, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:
> Sometimes a developer may have a change to fix a bug, and the user who
> submitted the bug may not be in a position to build Wireshark from
> source to test the fix; see, for example, recent comments on bug 12845:
>
>       https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12845#c55
>
> "The change hasn't been merged yet so there are no automated builds
> that have it included.
>
> You would have to make your own build, applying the change first."
>
>       https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12845#c56
>
> "That's unfortunately beyond my capabilities. Can you or Tomasz send me
> an installer (or just the binary if there are no external dependencies)
> of a version with this patch included to test whether it solves the
> issue? It might still be less work than creating the test extcap
> executable responding with my device lists."
>
> Would it be possible to have an option in Gerrit to request a Petri
> dish build that builds the Windows installer and saves it somewhere
> such as
>
>       https://{download site}/download/petri/win32
>
> with either 1) a maximum number to store there, 2) a timeout so that a
> given installer is only there for N days, or 3) an option to remove it,
> so that users not in a position to build from source can test it? 
> Perhaps the installers should have names such as
>
>       Wireshark-win64-3.1.0-{change number}.exe
>
> to make it clearer which build to get (and with a new build for a given
> change overwriting the previous build).
>
> This wouldn't help for users with 32-bit Windows or with macOS, as we
> don't have 32-bit Windows or macOS Petri dish builders, but, if that
> matters, that could be the next step.
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