Re: [HACKERS] Windows buildfarm support, or lack of it

2006-08-18 Thread Magnus Hagander
I have spare licences for most versions of Windows as well, so if Microsoft's virtual server product is not too expensive for us I can probably add a few platform variations to that box. I'll look into it. In fact MS released Virtual PC 2004 for free a couple days ago

Re: [HACKERS] Windows buildfarm support, or lack of it

2006-07-24 Thread Jim Nasby
On Jul 16, 2006, at 3:08 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote: Kris Jurka wrote: For my cygwin buildfarm member I setup cron, but the make step failed for every build for unknown reasons while succeeding if not run from cron. Is this still happening? We should try to get to the bottom of it. Try

Re: [HACKERS] Windows buildfarm support, or lack of it

2006-07-18 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: Petr Jelinek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 July 2006 18:05 To: Dave Page Cc: PostgreSQL-development Subject: Re: Windows buildfarm support, or lack of it Dave Page wrote: I have spare licences for most versions of Windows as well, so if

Re: [HACKERS] Windows buildfarm support, or lack of it

2006-07-18 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Dave Page wrote: It seems that VMWare are following suit - their entry level VMWare Server is now free for Windows and Linux :-) http://www.vmware.com/products/server/ It has been for some time, at least in Beta, so I'm not sure who really went first. We should be supplying a

[HACKERS] Windows buildfarm support, or lack of it

2006-07-16 Thread Tom Lane
What's wrong with this picture? http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_status.pl Notice how all the red is at the bottom of the report? That's because all the Windows machines are at the bottom, indicating that they haven't reported recently. AFAICT, snake is the only Windows machine that

Re: [HACKERS] Windows buildfarm support, or lack of it

2006-07-16 Thread Kris Jurka
On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Tom Lane wrote: [windows buildfarm machines run irregularly] For my part the difficulty is scheduling. As a primarily unix user I understand cron, but have no idea what the windows equivalent is. For my cygwin buildfarm member I setup cron, but the make step failed

Re: [HACKERS] Windows buildfarm support, or lack of it

2006-07-16 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Tom Lane Sent: Sun 7/16/2006 3:29 PM To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: [HACKERS] Windows buildfarm support, or lack of it AFAICT, snake is the only Windows machine that actually runs the buildfarm on a regular schedule

Re: [HACKERS] Windows buildfarm support, or lack of it

2006-07-16 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: Kris Jurka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun 7/16/2006 3:44 PM To: Tom Lane Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org; Dave Page Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Windows buildfarm support, or lack of it For my part the difficulty is scheduling. As a primarily unix user I

Re: [HACKERS] Windows buildfarm support, or lack of it

2006-07-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Kris Jurka wrote: On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Tom Lane wrote: [windows buildfarm machines run irregularly] For my part the difficulty is scheduling. As a primarily unix user I understand cron, but have no idea what the windows equivalent is. For my cygwin buildfarm member I setup cron, but

Re: [HACKERS] Windows buildfarm support, or lack of it

2006-07-16 Thread Petr Jelinek
Dave Page wrote: I have spare licences for most versions of Windows as well, so if Microsoft's virtual server product is not too expensive for us I can probably add a few platform variations to that box. I'll look into it. In fact MS released Virtual PC 2004 for free a couple days ago

Re: [HACKERS] Windows buildfarm support, or lack of it

2006-07-16 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Dave Page wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Tom Lane Sent: Sun 7/16/2006 3:29 PM To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: [HACKERS] Windows buildfarm support, or lack of it AFAICT, snake is the only Windows machine that actually runs the buildfarm

Re: [HACKERS] Windows buildfarm support, or lack of it

2006-07-16 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave Page wrote: I can bump that up as high as you'd like within reason. 4? 6 times a day? Let's go for 6, at least for HEAD. There's probably no need to check the back branches oftener than once a day, but if you can do HEAD every 4 hours that'd be

Re: [HACKERS] Windows buildfarm support, or lack of it

2006-07-16 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: Petr Jelinek [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dave Page dpage@vale-housing.co.uk Cc: PostgreSQL-development pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Sent: 16/07/06 18:05 Subject: Re: Windows buildfarm support, or lack of it In fact MS released Virtual PC 2004 for free a couple days

Re: [HACKERS] Windows buildfarm support, or lack of it

2006-07-16 Thread Josh Berkus
Andrew, Tom: I'm putting a solicitation in this week's PWN for more Windows buildfarm members. With 250,000 Windows+PostgreSQL users out there, you'd think a few people would step up. Dave, I think you may need to give Andrew Windows buildfarm instructions to put up at www.pgbuildfarm.org.

Re: [HACKERS] Windows buildfarm support, or lack of it

2006-07-16 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave Page wrote: I can bump that up as high as you'd like within reason. 4? 6 times a day? Let's go for 6, at least for HEAD. There's probably no need to check the back branches oftener than once a day, but if you can do HEAD every

Re: [HACKERS] Windows buildfarm support, or lack of it

2006-07-16 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 July 2006 18:47 To: Andrew Dunstan Cc: Dave Page; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Windows buildfarm support, or lack of it Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave Page wrote: I

Re: [HACKERS] Windows buildfarm support, or lack of it

2006-07-16 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 July 2006 18:17 To: Dave Page Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Windows buildfarm support, or lack of it care to share that script ? I set up seahorse on friday but as a unix-sysadmin I have not yet managed

Re: [HACKERS] Windows buildfarm support, or lack of it

2006-07-16 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: Josh Berkus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 July 2006 19:04 To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Cc: Tom Lane; Andrew Dunstan; Dave Page Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Windows buildfarm support, or lack of it Andrew, Tom: I'm putting a solicitation

Re: [HACKERS] Windows buildfarm support, or lack of it

2006-07-16 Thread Tom Lane
Dave Page dpage@vale-housing.co.uk writes: In fact MS released Virtual PC 2004 for free a couple days ago (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx) Yeah - I have licences for it, but it's more of an interactive emulator. I think I'll need the server version to run fully

Re: [HACKERS] Windows buildfarm support, or lack of it

2006-07-16 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Kris Jurka wrote: For my cygwin buildfarm member I setup cron, but the make step failed for every build for unknown reasons while succeeding if not run from cron. Is this still happening? We should try to get to the bottom of it. cheers andrew ---(end of

Re: [HACKERS] Windows buildfarm support, or lack of it

2006-07-16 Thread Nathan Buchanan
On 7/16/06, Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kris Jurka wrote: On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Tom Lane wrote: [windows buildfarm machines run irregularly] For my part the difficulty is scheduling.As a primarily unix user I understand cron, but have no idea what the windows equivalent is.For my