This mail is forwarded to some of my vendor-contacts (in bcc) to see if they would be interested in this effort (hi guys, this is a follow-up on a thread on the boost-ml). I had already similar discussions with them on this topic but if vendors run the regression tests for instance, are they considered to be 'impartial' etc. So this might be a solution. Additionally I must say that we are almost up and running again with the regression tests on IBM and HP (I've been saying that for a long time, I know). I'm leaving on a 10-day ski-vacation though but hope to be back in the regression business again in a month. toon Jeff Garland wrote:
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:09:27 -0500, David Abrahams wrote
I have done some investigation and it may be possible for OSL to provide a testing farm for Boost developers. OSL would like to know what kind of hardware, OS, compilers are most needed. Please post your requests in this thread.
This might seem kind of obvious, but our current platform/compiler set excluding compiler/OS versions is:
Windows VC, Intel, Borland, Code Warrior Linux GCC, Intel Solaris GCC, (could add Sun compiler if they fix it) MAC GCC, Code Warrior
So I'd say by default this is the 'highest priority' set. That's a minimum of 4 machines and 9 compilers to cover our current set. We should probably count on 2 compiler versions for each vendor making 18 compilers. If we were going to get crazy, we might want 2 windows machines to support the long list of compilers (btw, we also seem to have lost our MingW tester -- did we ever have a cygwin tester?)
Seems like the real variation here is in OS's. Of course, there are hundreds of Linux distros so Linux isn't just Linux -- not sure which one to pick there. There's other platforms some people might like such as BSD (see http://lists.boost.org/MailArchives/boost/msg77524.php) Not to mention HP, AIX, etc. BTW, maybe someone should ask some of these companies to provide the tools and a platform to OSL -- it's all to thier benefit if Boost works with their platform. Certainly IBM has been a big open source supporter recently...
Obviously the C++ community is going to owe a big debt to OSL -- let me revise that -- an even bigger debt!
Jeff
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