From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11855 invoked by alias); 14 Apr 2002 14:25:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 11830 invoked from network); 14 Apr 2002 14:25:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO executor.cambridge.redhat.com) (195.224.55.237) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 14 Apr 2002 14:25:11 -0000 Received: from prospero.cambridge.redhat.com (dell-paw-2.cambridge.redhat.com [195.224.55.226]) by executor.cambridge.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60C30ABAF8 for ; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 15:25:10 +0100 (BST) Received: by prospero.cambridge.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 4046) id 94FEFF7B77; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 15:25:09 +0100 (BST) Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: GCC 3.1 Release References: <46690000.1018660657@gandalf.codesourcery.com> <87662vicoi.fsf@creche.redhat.com> From: Jason Merrill In-Reply-To: (Andreas Jaeger's message of "Sun, 14 Apr 2002 16:18:03 +0200") Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 08:16:00 -0000 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00570.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Jaeger writes: > Jason Merrill writes: >>>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey writes: >> >>> What I'd like to see in the future is for people to set up automated >>> regression testers, say like Geoff's, that test these platforms. Then >>> we simply won't introduce problems in the first place. >> >>> In fact what I'd really like to see is a requirement for such a >>> regression tester for every platform that is considered release >>> critical. (I'm sure the logistics of this are difficult.) >> >> Absolutely. Geoff, how hard would it be for someone on the net to set up a >> slave tester to improve coverage? I'd like to keep the bookkeeping >> centralized, but the actual testing work can and should be distributed. > What do you mean with slave tester? Another computer somewhere on the net, running tests as controlled by the current system. Jason