On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 03:25:40PM -0500, Thomas Briggs wrote:
>
> > > How hard is it to add new boxes to tinderbox? If I scrounged up a
> crappy
> > > old system, slapped Windows on it and set it up to build AbiWord all
> day,
> > > could we get the results included in tinderbox easily enough?
> >
> > It's very easy. Anyone who wants to be a tinderbox hostcan be one
> > with a minimum of trouble. You just need a permanent internet
> > connection. If you are willing to do this, Tom, that would be great.
> > Then I wouldn't have to worry about the Win32 boxes at sourcegear,
> > which would be very nice.
>
> Well, I have a permanent connection, and I also happen to have a
> dedicated Win32 box that doesn't get a whole lot of use, so this may be
> feasible for me to do.
> Will it matter that the machine is behind a firewall? (I control the
> firewall, so we could work around it if necessary, but if possible I'd
> prefer not to do that...)
All that tinderbox requires (AFAIK) is the ability to send email to
some address beginning with tinderbox-*@abisource.com. So firewalls
shouldn't be a problem on either end (parsons is behind a firewall
too).
sam th
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