In message <87d3qttqq4....@v35516.1blu.de>, Stefan Bodewig writes: > > On 2010-10-27, Mark Hindess wrote: > > > In message <878w1kawjp....@v35516.1blu.de>, Stefan Bodewig writes: > > >> Hi all, > > >> if Harmony is able to bootstrap and run Ant and run Maven then maybe > >> running Gump <http://gump.apache.org/> on top of it may be a good way to > >> see where projects have dependencies on Sun libs and where Harmony isn't > >> working as expected. > > >> Setting up Gump on Harmony likely "only" involves asking infra for a > >> virtual machine, installing Harmony (preferrably a stable 6.0 build, we > >> can think about using trunk builds later) and installing Gump. > > >> If anybody is interested I'd be happy to take the lead on the infra and > >> Gump sides of things but would need some support/hand-holding for the > >> Harmony installation and the small problems we'll encounter on the way. > > > That would be cool. > > Stefano Mazzocci had this working in the past and Joe Schaefer tossed > out the idea on a way too long thread on a different list elsewhere > recently. > > > I'm can help with the Harmony side of things. > > Cool. > > Given the choices of VMs infra could give us most easily it probably > comes down to Ubuntu (10.4) on VMWare or a FreeBSD jail. I'm not sure > how stable you consider the FreeBSD port of Harmony to be, would it be > better to opt for the VMWare instance? It would be a 64Bit system in > either case.
Ubuntu is well-tested. FreeBSD much less so and Harmony's socket implementation needs substantial work on FreeBSD. So VMWare would be the most sensible choice. Regards, Mark.
