Re: Snake farm

Anders Qvist <[email protected]> Sun, 3 Nov 2002 09:51:12 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.snake-farm.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 06:51:01PM -0500, Neal Norwitz wrote:
> I am mostly testing 2.3, but can test 2.2 as well.

The PBF people have also requested this.

> Right now, there is no easy way to tell if a bug on SF is specific to
> a particular OS/architecture.  There are already Macintosh and Windows
> categories, perhaps a UNIX category should be added?  In the meantime,
> feel free to assign UNIX platform specific problems to me.  I know
> there are some FreeBSD problems.  There is a FreeBSD machine in the SF
> compile farm (ssh to compile.sf.net).  Just in case someone wants to
> try to fix the FreeBSD bugs. :-)

The lack of a FreeBSD-machine in snake farm is only due to laziness.
There is hardware available. There might even be a FreeBSD/intel
machine hidden away in the computer hall, just that noone have found
it yet :). I'll see what I can do (picture week-long expedition
through a vast maze of 19"-racks, huge cabinets and long-decommisioned
Crays).
-- 
Anders "Quest" Qvist

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