Created by: damccorm
The Change
This PR adds Azure Pipelines to perform CI builds and PR builds. Pipelines offers several key advantages:
- Single definition for all platforms (Linux/Windows/Mac) reduces the amount of time spent maintaining CI.
- Faster overall build times because of free parallelism - Pipelines offers 10 free concurrent jobs and unlimited build minutes for all OSS projects. Plus, for big projects like this one, Microsoft is happy to raise the concurrency limit, so we could have 15 or 20 parallel jobs. This should cut max build times to 4 or 4.5 minutes on Pipelines (it seems to vary a lot for Appveyor, but I've seen anything from 6 - 10 minutes in previous builds).
- Free MacOS builds - right now we're not building on MacOS at all, but some issues appear only on that OS.
Disclaimer
Full disclosure, I'm an engineer on the Pipelines team, but I also think Pipelines provides some pretty significant advantages here.
Additional Info
You can see that this works in my pipeline.
With test reporting!
