Garrett Serack:
First, Garrett, I find this is good news.
Second, I must say I found hard to read the first message, the font you
used was kind of blurred in Thunderbird. So thank you to have switched
to plain text in the second message! :)
On 09/07/2007 02:39, Neil Hodgson wrote:
Its difficult to code and test on platforms other than what you
have installed. I no longer test with Windows 95 and don't have 64-bit
Vista installed either so it doesn't get tested. Microsoft could make
virtual machine images available with different operating system
versions and tool chains to anyone that wants to work on open source
projects.
Knowing that MS no longer support (officially) most old systems (Win9x,
NT4...), would they make them available this way or in the following way?
VMWare images would be best but Virtual PC may work.
VMWare is payware, no? Isn't Virtual PC now a MS product, freely
available? Would be better.
Performance limitations and general use hassles will discourage use of
these images as replacements for Windows licenses but they may need
further crippling to get this approved.
Another approach to this is to offer build and test farms over the
net. An open source project can upload a source distribution and set
of unit tests which are then farmed out to different platforms and the
results mailed back to the originator. Since these can run in
parallel, you'll get results quickly. On top of that add a way to
initiate nightly with fresh checkouts.
Good idea. Maybe even allow access to the GUI of these farms (for GUI
testing) via some remote access (VNC?).
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Philippe Lhoste
-- (near) Paris -- France
-- http://Phi.Lho.free.fr
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