Re: quality assurance (was: Re: GNUstep Base 1.11.0)

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

Am Samstag, 23.07.05 um 21:32 Uhr schrieb Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf:

> How about using the donation money GNUstep got for buying some testing 
> machines which would go into the same place as the GNUstep web servers 
> are and could then be used for testing/developing GNUstep onto some 
> more "exotic" platforms: Some *BSD, some Solaris boxen (be it x86 or 
> SPARC), a Mac (Mac mini should be enough), maybe some HPUX box should 
> be enough for the start. Those machines don't necessarily need to be 
> new hardware, I guess we could get them used somewhere for cheap. Then 
> put them online with special ssh accounts (maybe some VNC too) for the 
> core devs and there you go: compilation and testing is possible 
> remotely for those who need it.

Something else came to my mind: We even would need only one machine per 
architecture and could than do the rest with virtualization solutions 
like f.i. Mac on Linux for PPC ( http://www.maconlinux.org/ ): Install 
Linux on the Box as host system and then run Mac OS X, pure Darwin, 
Linux, the *BSDs in a virtual environment. This way we could kill (not 
just) two birds with one stone.

regards, Lars