Re: Sending out a request for more buildfarm animals?

On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 05:04:01PM +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
> There's pretty little coverage of non mainstream platforms/compilers in
> the buildfarm atm. Maybe we should send an email on -announce asking for
> new ones?
> There's no coverage for OS-wise;
> * AIX (at all)
> * HP-UX (for master at least)
> (* Tru64)
> (* UnixWare)
>
> Architecture wise there's no coverage for:
> * some ARM architecture varians
> * mips
> * s390/x
> * sparc 32bit
> (* s390)
> (* alpha)
> (* mipsel)
> (* M68K)
>
> A couple of those aren't that important (my opinion indicated by ()),
> but the other ones really should be covered or desupported.

More coverage of non-gcc compilers would be an asset to the buildfarm.

+1 for sending a call for help to -announce. I agree with your importance
estimates, particularly on the OS side. -1 for making code-level changes to
"desupport" a platform based on the lack of a buildfarm member, though I don't
mind documentation/advocacy changes on that basis.

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Noah Misch
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