[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Portability testing using pre-configured VMs
From: |
Pádraig Brady |
Subject: |
Re: Portability testing using pre-configured VMs |
Date: |
Sat, 04 Oct 2014 02:20:51 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130110 Thunderbird/17.0.2 |
On 10/04/2014 12:33 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> Hello,
>
> To ease portability testing of GNU software,
> I've created a collection of virtual-machines of POSIX-compatible,
> Free-Software operating systems.
> These are pre-configured with programs required for building autotools-based
> projects.
>
> If anyone is interested in using them, downloads and more information are
> available here:
> http://www.nongnu.org/pretest/
>
> I've sent few reports based on these VMs to various mailing lists
> (and except the MINIX case, I hope the signal-to-noise ratio was good enough
> to be considered useful).
>
> OSes include:
> gNewSense, Trisquel,
> Debian, Ubuntu (only the free repositories),
> CentOS, OpenSUSE,
> FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD,
> GNU Hurd, DilOS (OpenSolaris-like), MINIX.
> Downloads here:
> http://www.nongnu.org/pretest/downloads/
>
> In this first version, testing is done manually.
> In future versions, I hope to automate large parts of it (that is - given a
> tarball, run "configure + make + make check" on all VMs). Integration with
> other infrastructures (like libvirt) is also a goal.
>
> I will try to test future tarballs sent to platform-testers.
>
> Comments and suggestions are welcomed,
> (Please reply to address@hidden )
Excellent stuff.
I'll definitely try these out.
BTW sizes of the download images would be useful to present.
thanks,
Pádraig.