Re: What X86/X64 OS's do we need coverage for?

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org>
Cc: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "Matthew O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>, Devrim Gündüz <devrim(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: What X86/X64 OS's do we need coverage for?
Date: 2007-04-06 15:04:13
Message-ID: 4616616D.4050206@commandprompt.com
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>>> VMWare Server is indeed a fine product, which I use extensively.
>>>
>>> I am not sure what our Windows support is like for x86_64. Magnus has
>>> one for MSVC (for which buildfarm support is nearly done, but not
>>> quite). But I don't see one for MinGW. OTOH, Windows is not free (in
>>> either sense) and setting up a build environment there is quite a bit
>>> harder than on Unix platforms.
>>
>> yeah improving windows coverage might be a nice thing - some other
>> random thoughts might include:
>> *) a linux x86_64 box with say the non-commercial version of icc (intel
>> c compiler)
>> *) recent netbsd/amd64
>> *) solaris 10/x86 - gcc and sun studio
>> *) maybe solaris express/opensolaris?
>> *) as said early we don't seem to have any suse/novell coverage at all
>
> I'll see what I can do on the NetBSD and Solaris fronts.
>

IMO, the Solaris one is probably more important than NetBSD.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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