Re: Anyone still care about Cygwin? (was Re: [CORE] GPL
Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
From: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
Date: 2006-06-24T19:49:44Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Friday 23 June 2006 14:30, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> >> There are several supported platforms not represented on the buildfarm -
> >> e.g. the one HPUX member has never actually reported any results.
> >
> > Yeah, and this is not a good thing. Eventually I'd like to get to a
> > point where every platform we consider "supported" has regular buildfarm
> > reports. No more calls for port reports during beta periods --- beta
> > work should focus on functionality testing, not getting it to build.
>
> Then people who have access to people who own or can provide access to
> machines in classes not covered need to do a bit of begging ;-)
>
> The requirements are (deliberately) very modest:
>
> OS and toolset required to build postgres from CVS
> A modern perl installation (>=5.6 is adequate)
> Anonymous read access to a CVS repository - either the one at
> postgresql.org or a replica
> Outbound HTTP port 80 access to www.pgbuildfarm.org, possibly via a proxy.
>
> Once it is set up it is close to hands free - you just set up the cron
> job(s) or equivalent.
>
Dave,
wasn't someone just trying to donate a machine to us for the website but we
weren't sure what to do with it? One that could do VM's? Seems we could use
that for some buildfarm members maybe.
--
Robert Treat
Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL