On Oct 14, 10:45 am, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote:
> kcrisman wrote:
>
> >>> I don't think this would work at all, unless there is an *easy*
> >>> automated procedure to submit a patch to a bot which (a) applies the
> >>> patch to the current tree (b) compiles in all platforms (c) attaches
> >>> the logs to the ticket and possibly flags the ticket depending on the
> >>> result of the test.
> >> A build bot would be nice, but I do not myself see the fact it is not
> >> dead easy to test on another platform, and have a build bot
> >> automatically attach a patch, should be an excuse for not checking. I
> >> certainly check my patches on hardware other than what I develop it on.
>
> > No, it is very, very difficult for some of us. Even for me to do the
> > recent checking of PPC versus MacIntel I did to help fix that problem
> > was a sheer quirk that my technology center hasn't reclaimed my old
> > computer yet because I was having problems with my new one. Soon I
> > will have access to precisely one computer, let alone architecture.
> > And, frankly, the time involved in checking (for me) on another
> > computer is significantly greater than the time I just spent reading
> > this thread :)
>
> I have an old 10.2 PPC imac sitting next to me. I can try keeping it
> around solely to do builds and doctesting. That will probably keep it
> busy full-time, especially if we have only a week between alphas!
>
> That is, if 10.2 is anywhere near a supported platform.
Nope, I think we start with Tiger (10.4). In fact, definitely won't
work with the fix for dynamic links or whatever we did for cliquer.
I'm hoping to hang on to this one for a little longer for the same
purpose, but we'll see...
- kcrisman
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