From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeffrey A Law To: Joe Buck Cc: bothner@cygnus.com (Per Bothner), egcs@cygnus.com Subject: Re: Successful Build and Install Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 11:32:00 -0000 Message-id: <1236.891365158@hurl.cygnus.com> References: <199803261957.LAA15374@atrus.synopsys.com> X-SW-Source: 1998-04/msg00079.html In message <199803261957.LAA15374@atrus.synopsys.com>you write: > It seems that we would only want: > * reports of failures on systems we believe to work > * reports of successes *or* failures on systems we haven't tested. > > So we should be telling folks something like: if you run X, Y, or Z, > let us know if the install fails or there are large numbers of test > failures. If you have something more exotic, we'd appreciate a report > if you build successfully. And the list can be dynamic: if we hadn't > verified, say, FreeBSD 2.2.6 but some user does, we can indicate that. This is probably the right general direction for minor releases. However at each major release it's probably useful to get these reports for all systems -- including those we regularly work on. It's been my experience that as a developer I know how to build things dead cold. It's amazing what kinds of problems are exposed by folks that don't build compilers every day... jeff