Proposal: Continuous Integration suite for Windows on AppVeyor

[mvadu]

Continuing from #6223, we are getting lot of failure on Windows side (I know its not "officially" supported, but it runs, works on Windows), and we don't have any easy way to know if a PR is going to break compatibility. I am proposing to use AppVeyor's ci, which provides ci for Windows. I have done a POC, https://ci.appveyor.com/project/mvadu/influxdb and we can get the basic things running.

Its not perfect yet, as the current master passes on my local machine (Windows 10, go 1.4.3) but fails on AppVeyor's test. If the team is okay, I will submit a PR for the AppVeyor config, and Influx team (may be @pauldix ) have to register for an account with them.

[toddboom]

@mvadu This is a great idea. Incidentally, one of the guys on our team spiked on something similar yesterday after the issue you ran into in #6223: mark-rushakoff@20a287f

I think that getting a green build up on AppVeyor is a huge first step for supporting Windows builds, even experimentally. If you want to send in a PR with the AppVeyor config, I'll get it enabled on the repo.

[mvadu]

@toddboom I just pushed #6249 with the config. After spending my whole yesterday to get AppVeyor replace their default go1.6 to 1.4.3, I found an easy one, and the new config is much simpler. One test at the end (tsdb/engine/tsm1) is still failing on that version and passing on my local. Will debug more.

[mvadu]

The failure on AppVeyor was mainly due to dependency management problems, once I sorted out the gdm, Windows ci is running fine. #6249 has been merged to master now. Please get the integration done on AppVeyor.com, and windows tests can be part of each commit to master.

[e-dard]

Closed via #6249

[mvadu]

@e-dard could you please share the link to the AppVeyor ci, where you have it integrated? That way I can monitor it, and work on any failures (if I can be of any help to) fix them?

[e-dard]

Hi @mvadu!

If you look at the details of any open PR you'll now see a link to the AppVeyor build. The main project page is here.

[mvadu]

Awesome!! Thanks much.