[QGIS-Developer] Windows compilation infrastructure

[Hugo Mercier]

Hi,

Following my announcement on the osgeo4w-dev mailing list [1], I would
like to let you know that we now have a mirror to the OSGEO4W
distribution up and running on:

http://osgeo4w-oslandia.com/mirror/

We also provide some additional packages (including PostgreSQL and
PostGIS for instance) here :
http://osgeo4w-oslandia.com/extra/

This is the result of our Windows compilation infrastructure that uses
gitlab and gitlab-ci.

We would like to help make the OSGEO4W effort something more
reproducible, open and distributed in the long run.

The first step was to make public our internal repository that hosts
building scripts. It is now available on https://gitlab.com/Oslandia/osgeo4w

We use it to run packaging scripts and we plan to add QGIS compilation
very soon. But this could probably also be used as a CI to run tests on
Windows.

The current ongoing effort is about making the configuration of the
virtual machine used for compilation the more reproducible possible.

We will discuss in Madeira what is the best way to share our current
infrastructure with the community.


[1]
http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/OSGeo4W-mirror-and-more-tt5354334.html