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Add to SafariWhen comparing Buddy vs AppVeyor, the Slant community recommends AppVeyor for most people. In the question“What are the best continuous integration tools?” AppVeyor is ranked 4th while Buddy is ranked 15th. The most important reason people chose AppVeyor is:
AppVeyor is free for public GitHub repositories.
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Pros
Pro Easy Pipeline Setups
The ease to setup custom pipelines are amazing, can easily various settings quickly and then be ready to deploy.
Pro Multitude of Actions
Almost any action you can need and think of is already here, making it easy for you to setup your pipeline.
Pro Nice material design
The design is minimalistic and based on today's standarts on material design. It uses colors which are pleasing to the eye and displays the information in an ordered way. The main view shows the latest activity sorted in a chronological order, displaying commits and pushes.
Every repo has it's own view, on the top there's the repo's name and a dropdown which displays the current branch with the ability to change to another branch or to create a new one.
On the right there's a vertical menu with links to add a new file, show the history or to download the current repository.
Pro Free private repositories
Private repositories are free. Although they are free for up to 3 repos and each repository must be less than 100MB in size.
Pro Lots of integrations, for example discord, slack
Pro Free for open-source projects
AppVeyor is free for public GitHub repositories.
Pro Supports Windows build enviroment
AppVeyor has a build environment for Windows available.
Pro Clear, straight-forward user interface
Well I suggest you check it out for yourself, but what I like most is that it's simple yet effective: no bells and whistles, simple black/grey/light-blue/white color scheme, it's immediately clear where you have to go for each specific task, and build settings pages are like that as well. Getting a 'standard' build running literally took me a minute the first time I used it.
Pro Easy access to build VM
AppVeyor allows the user to login to the actual build VM.
Pro The initial setup is easy
There's practically no setup involved prior to working with AppVeyor: simply sign in, add the project, and start a new build.
Cons
Con Unlimited private repositories are not free
To have more than three repositories and to bypass the limit of 100MB per repository it's not free. It costs $3/month.
Con Not free
This is open-source but not free.
Con Configuration is limited
AppVeyor's configuration (which is done from the .yaml file in the root of the project) is unfortunately very limited. The configuration is either tied to a branch or, in other cases, it's global. This limits the developer to a single build process.
However, since you can use arbitrary scripts for building, all those limitations can be overcome. Configuration can also be done from the web UI without a .yaml file.
