Host OS for custom build farm

[roboti...@gmail.com]

ros_buildfarm_deployment_config seems to indicate the requirement for a Linux-based host OS based on the bash scripts required to run. Is that true or can I install the ROS build environment on Windows based Jenkins and Docker?

[Tully Foote]

Hi, 

Running the ros_buildfarm on Windows is not a use case we designed for. I would not recommend attempting to make this work.

We do a lot of work in docker but there are many scripts that run bash to launch the docker instances. 

The buildfarm_deployment is very much tied to posix. It's certainly possible to consider running it on other posix platforms, but the only tested platform is Ubuntu. If you're setting up a buildfarm it's highly recommended to have dedicated machines and to use the standard ubuntu base images. 

Tully

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 11:39 AM, <roboti...@gmail.com> wrote:

ros_buildfarm_deployment_config seems to indicate the requirement for a Linux-based host OS based on the bash scripts required to run. Is that true or can I install the ROS build environment on Windows based Jenkins and Docker?

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[roboti...@gmail.com]

I had a feeling that was the situation. Thanks for the prompt response.