Re: Sending out a request for more buildfarm animals?

Andres,

> There's pretty little coverage of non mainstream platforms/compilers in
> the buildfarm atm. Maybe we should send an email on -announce asking for
> new ones?
> There's no coverage for OS-wise;
> * AIX (at all)
> * HP-UX (for master at least)
> (* Tru64)
> (* UnixWare)

Do we want a SmartOS (opensolaris/Joyent) animal?  Do we already have one?

> Architecture wise there's no coverage for:
> * some ARM architecture varians

I could run a buildfarm animal on a Raspberry Pi if the Postgres
community will replace my flash cards as they burn out.

> * mips
> * s390/x
> * sparc 32bit

Do we really care about sparc 32bit at this point?  You're talking a
10-year-old machine, there.

> (* s390)
> (* alpha)
> (* mipsel)
> (* M68K)
> 
> A couple of those aren't that important (my opinion indicated by ()),
> but the other ones really should be covered or desupported.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Andres Freund
> 


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