On Thu, 20 May 2010 12:26:03 +0200, Joost van der Sluis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 13:08 +0300, Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis wrote: >> On Thu, 20 May 2010 11:40:09 +0200, Joost van der Sluis <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> < snip > >> >> > But maybe it would be very useful if you help with the basic testing. >> > When a release is build (relatively simple) you always have to test it >> > on an 'empty' system. You could help with that. >> > >> > And, offcourse, you could try to build a release right now, using the >> > fpc-2.4.1 branch. For as many as possible releases. Marco has posted >> > url >> > which explain how to do it. And report all problems you encounter. So >> > that the chances that 'we' encounter them when we are building the >> > official releases, don't have any problems. >> >> I'm already in the process of setting up a box with VMware ESXi 4. It >> will >> be a >> test bed and a build farm machine. It has a lot of RAM and is powerfull >> enough to >> serve that purpose. >> >> Is it possible to give me a list of OS's you think i can help ? I can do >> Linux, >> Windows (win32, win64, wince) and some OSX ( I also have installed >> hackintosh 10.5.8 on my machine on a spare disk ... ) > > Hackintosh could be easy for the first test, but I doubt Jonas will > accept a release of fpc build on it. ;) > > Take a look at the download-page of freepascal. What I miss is Linux 32 > and 64 bit. (rpm and deb based. Plus our own installer in .tar format) > > And FreeBSD (32 and 64 bit, Marco?), arm-linux.
I'll take a look and inform what i can done for those OS's. PS: For arm-linux i can give a try with my gumstix verdex pro XL6P, but i never tried something like that with that COM. -- Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis ArteSOFT -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
