On Sun, 2010-04-11 at 17:50 +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 11/04/2010 16:23, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:
> > On 11 April 2010 16:17, Jack Howarth wrote:
> >> ps I've watched FSF gcc development for awhile now
> >> and have become a bit concerned that it is slowing
> >> tending towards a gnu-linux mono-culture (through
> >> no real fault of its own). There should be every effort
> >> made to keep as many alternative platforms in the
> >> picture (even if these end up being supported through
> >> plugins).
> >
> > Do you have any real fact or measure that substantiates such claim? Or
> > is this just a "feeling"?
>
> Here's a very crude indicator:
>
> > $ wget http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2010-04/
> > --2010-04-11 17:45:09-- http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2010-04/
> > Resolving gcc.gnu.org... 209.132.180.131
> > Connecting to gcc.gnu.org|209.132.180.131|:80... connected.
> > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> > Length: 245044 (239K) [text/html]
> > Saving to: `index.html.6'
> >
> > 100%[======================================>] 245,044 91.5K/s in 2.6s
> >
> > 2010-04-11 17:45:12 (91.5 KB/s) - `index.html.6' saved [245044/245044]
> >
> >
> > $ grep 'Results' index.html.6 > results
> >
> > $ wc -l results
> > 753 results
> >
> > $ grep -i linux results | wc -l
> > 482
> >
> > $ grep -vi linux results | wc -l
> > 271
> >
> > $
>
> Grepping the -patches archives to see which platforms submitted patches get
> testing on would also be interesting, but somewhat harder owing to the more
> free-form nature of the text there. Still, a two-to-one ratio of linux to
> rest-of-the-world would be in line with my subjective impression: it's not
> overwhelming the rest, but it's substantially the best tended-to.
>
> So, I certainly have the same feeling, but I think it's just inevitable that
> the most popular platform gets the most support.
Quick grepping on 2010-03 gcc-testresults shows more than 70% of the
results are submitted by only 5 sources:
106 ghazi
267 regress at geoffk dot org
333 Laurent GUERBY
387 Mike Stein
905 H.J. Lu
Of these five sources three are running on the GCC compile farm (which
BTW is not limited to GCC testing :). The compile farm operates mostly
out of donated hardware and hosting. We currently cover all non
proprietary OS primary and secondary platforms except s390-linux.
We're of course open to accept proprietary platforms donations (machine
and/or hosting) provided they come with the right to open public shell
accounts on them (which is the way we operate the project, ~ 160
accounts to date).
Sincerely,
Laurent
http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CompileFarm
