On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:34:13 +0100 "Fernando J. Pereda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:23:00PM -0500, Seemant Kulleen wrote: | > Third, the best proposal I've seen here is for developers to get | > shell accounts on alternate architectures. There's quite a few of | > them floating around, and I'm pretty sure the arch teams will help | > you get a shell on one of the boxes somewhere. Some of the arches | > even have shell boxes for that purpose sitting at OSU or | > something. This would work for at least the console applications | > (the visual stuff will be a little trickier). | | Just to add a little thing here: | | Arch teams have been using vnc through ssh to test visual stuff like | gnome, kde, xfce and their respective mothers, for years. | | So testing visual stuff remotely *is* possible.
Kind of... You won't, for example, have picked up the endian bug in urxvt by doing that. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org Web : http://ciaranm.org/ as-needed is broken : http://ciaranm.org/show_post.pl?post_id=13
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