Re: HP hobbyist license

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 04:11:32PM +0000, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> I believe you can still get an account on an HP server for purposes of open source porting.  See

(Which of course is what I'm now using)

> In that case HP would be the license holder.  Also, it might be something slightly less ancient than the old alpha the deathrow folks have.  George Greer started down this path to set up a smoker and got tangled up at how different it is from anything he's used to, but he did get as far as a relatively clean build of 5.14.1.

It would be *very* useful to have a VMS smoker automatically processing
smoke-me branches. I've not looked at the smoke testing code, but the biggest
concerns I'd have are

0: Can the machine cope with it? I suspect that smoke-testing is a full time
   job.
1: Are HP happy with it? :-)
2: Presumably the smoker process fires off with cron, or somesuch. I don't
   know any VMS sysadmin type stuff to translate how things are done from
   Unix.

Nicholas Clark