| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee> |
| Cc: | Justin Clift <aa2(at)bigpond(dot)net(dot)au>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: beta5 ... |
| Date: | 2001-02-21 16:10:08 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.30.0102211701550.1381-100000@peter.localdomain |
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Hannu Krosing writes:
> It would be nice if someone (pgsql inc., great bridge, etc.) provided a
> central web page for registering the results so that you won't need to
> scan athe whole list to find out if your platform is already tested.
"Platform already tested" is a misguided concept. Almost any machine is
customized or deviating in some form or other. A listing of the form
beta1 beta2 ...
Linux ok ok
Solaris ok broken
...
is, IMHO, worse than useless, because it would actually decrease the
amount of wide-spread, diverse testing.
I wouldn't mind an automated process that builds and runs the test suite
regularly on many machines to inform developers during the development
cycle that they broke something really bad, but to make this part of the
beta testing process is sheer folly.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://yi.org/peter-e/
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