Re: Build farm

Peter Eisentraut wrote:

>Andrew Dunstan writes:
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>>If there's general interest I'll try to cook something up. (This kind of
>>stuff is right up my alley). I'd prefer some automated display of
>>results, though. A simple CGI script should be all that's required for
>>that.
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>The real problem will be to find enough machines so that the build farm
>becomes useful. IMO, that would mean *more* machines than are currently
>lines in the supported-platforms table.
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"Useful" is probably subjective. That list would at least be a good
place to start, though. What combinations of variables do you think we
would need?

This would be a fairly painless way for users to be helpful to the
project, btw - the way I am envisioning things this would be fairly much
a "set and forget" process.

I'll have an example page available in a few days.

cheers

andrew