From: Christophe R. <cs...@ca...> - 2007-03-28 14:57:35
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wil...@ai... (William Harold Newman) writes: > I'd also be interested in a pointer to information about ways I could > test such things myself. I seem to remember discussion of SourceForge > machines available for testing such things. I believe that this is no longer an option, as SourceForge has shut down their compile farm because of lack of resources. > However, I don't remember any recent discussion, and I can't think > of any good keywords for pulling the information out of the mailing > list archives. HP still has, I believe, a testdrive program (which allows development on a variety of different arch/OS combinations); that's the only option I know of for testing before commit, short of finding a friend with suitable hardware. On the other hand, I personally don't see that the occasional build breakage on some platforms is a large problem, especially early in the monthly cycle: that's what the nice pool of people who are willing to try CVS is for, to report (and sometimes even fix) problems on architectures inaccessible to an individual. Cheers, Christophe |