[bug-inetutils] Re: Which testing systems are in regular use?

[Simon Josefsson]

Mats Erik Andersson <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I am pondering on the mechanisms in use for testing inetutils
> on different operating systems. The capacities I have myself
> is Debian GNU/Linux, Debian GNU/kfreebsd, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD,
> in a mixture of i386 and amd64.
>
> I did make an effort to arrange OpenSolaris alongside OpenBSD,
> but the Solaris patched GRUB only functioned as graphical/Solaris,
> or as text/OpenBSD, not vice versa, so I can not add OpenSolaris
> to my testing.
>
> To what extent are patches mechanically, or manually, tested
> on different systems before entering the repository?

I cannot speak of others, but I suspect systematic testing of InetUtils
is minimal.  It would help a lot if we had more self tests, then we can
automate things on a number of platforms.  I have access to GNU/Linux
Debian/Ubuntu/gNewSense systems and Mac OS X 10.4 ppc and Mac OS X 10.5
x86.

Personally, I'd rather see more systematic and automatic testing rather
than require more manual testing of patches, since the latter tends to
slow down development.

/Simon