Changing the build process isnt the solution. Or maybe it is, but it isnt the real problem, which is we need to reexamine what our test process is.
[On the subject of testing, I can borrow an Itanium 1 workstation if I can think of a good excuse. Its too big and noisy for the office, but I was thinking of bringing up a 64 bit os (unix or nt) and running gump on it. Thoughts?]
If it is possible for me to get access to the machine, I would gladly volunteer to set everything up.
If the tests could be split into ones that everybody should run before every commit and tests that should be run by by an automated regression test suite, then the workspace definitions for underpowered 2Ghz 32 bit Pentium machines can be configured to run the first set, and your beefy itanium could be configured to run the latter.
I'd strongly suggest running a version of Unix.
- Sam Ruby
