Re: Anyone still care about Cygwin? (was Re: [CORE] GPL

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)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.

cheers

andrew