[gdal-dev] Installing test databases/servers online for the GDAL project

2008-10-28 Thread Tamas Szekeres
Folks, I'm not totally sure whether this topic has already been discussed or not, however I'd like to see your opinion about. I've just worked on adding further drivers to Windows buildbot slaves, as I consider it would be reasonable to have them regularly tested especialy during the beta/release

Re: [gdal-dev] Installing test databases/servers online for the GDAL project

2008-10-28 Thread Lucena, Ivan
Tamas, Very good point! > Another benefit of such an addition would be that the developers could > track down and fix issues related to these drivers without having to > wait for the component owner to take the required action. Most of the > developers (like me) cannot afford spending such am

Re: [gdal-dev] Installing test databases/servers online for the GDAL project

2008-10-28 Thread Frank Warmerdam
Tamas Szekeres wrote: Folks, I'm not totally sure whether this topic has already been discussed or not, however I'd like to see your opinion about. I've just worked on adding further drivers to Windows buildbot slaves, as I consider it would be reasonable to have them regularly tested especialy

Re: [gdal-dev] Installing test databases/servers online for the GDAL project

2008-10-28 Thread Even Rouault
As far as pgsql and mysql are concerned, the first few lines of ogr_pg.py and ogr_mysql.py describe what is required to set up the databases. For these ones, it is pretty easy. For the other servers, I can't say. For the record: # # To create the required PostGIS instance do something like: # #

Re: [gdal-dev] Installing test databases/servers online for the GDAL project

2008-10-28 Thread Tamas Szekeres
Frank, Even, Ivan, Thank you all for your comments, It great to hear that most of these are available for free, so we 'only' have to deal with setting them up. Yes, a 'gdaltest' VM image would be helpful, we could easily set up and run all of those databases locally on each buildbot machine so we