With SVN (or similary) you'd simply configure your CI to 1) checkout 1 or more files and subdirectories and 2) config your CI to run a particular build script.

With SVN (or similary) you'd simply configure your CI to 1) checkout 1 or more files and subdirectories and 2) config your CI to run a particular build script. The notion of zero-config CI is a recent invention, thanks to conventions of small repos with well-known project file names per language/platform ecosystem.