X-Original-To: pgsql-hackers-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.2]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF014D1D612 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 13:00:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 61227-09 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 08:59:56 -0400 (AST) Received: from trolak.mydnsbox2.com (ns1.mydnsbox2.com [207.44.142.118]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57AC9D1D80E for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 08:59:52 -0400 (AST) Received: from dunslane.net (cpe-024-211-141-025.nc.rr.com [24.211.141.25]) (authenticated (0 bits)) by trolak.mydnsbox2.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id hAJDuqK11141 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 07:56:52 -0600 Message-ID: <3FBB694A.3030908@dunslane.net> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 07:59:54 -0500 From: Andrew Dunstan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030508 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: PostgreSQL-development Subject: Re: Build farm References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200311/1036 X-Sequence-Number: 47324 Peter Eisentraut wrote: >Andrew Dunstan writes: > > > >>If there's general interest I'll try to cook something up. (This kind of >>stuff is right up my alley). I'd prefer some automated display of >>results, though. A simple CGI script should be all that's required for >>that. >> >> > >The real problem will be to find enough machines so that the build farm >becomes useful. IMO, that would mean *more* machines than are currently >lines in the supported-platforms table. > > "Useful" is probably subjective. That list would at least be a good place to start, though. What combinations of variables do you think we would need? This would be a fairly painless way for users to be helpful to the project, btw - the way I am envisioning things this would be fairly much a "set and forget" process. I'll have an example page available in a few days. cheers andrew