Re: Anyone still care about Cygwin? (was Re: [CORE] GPL

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>   
>> There are several supported platforms not represented on the buildfarm - 
>> e.g. the one HPUX member has never actually reported any results.
>>     
>
> Yeah, and this is not a good thing.  Eventually I'd like to get to a
> point where every platform we consider "supported" has regular buildfarm
> reports.  No more calls for port reports during beta periods --- beta
> work should focus on functionality testing, not getting it to build.
>
>             
>   

Then people who have access to people who own or can provide access to 
machines in classes not covered need to do a bit of begging ;-)

The requirements are (deliberately) very modest:

OS and toolset required to build postgres from CVS
A modern perl installation (>=5.6 is adequate)
Anonymous read access to a CVS repository - either the one at 
postgresql.org or a replica
Outbound HTTP port 80 access to www.pgbuildfarm.org, possibly via a proxy.

Once it is set up it is close to hands free - you just set up the cron 
job(s) or equivalent.

cheers

andrew