Hi Eric, this is great news, and thank you for your work. I cannot wait to check it out (but it will be during the weekend).
Jon and I will get back to you about how we can manage the changes and patches. best regards, René. > On 5 jun. 2015, at 15:39, Erico Mendonca <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello all, > Again, me and Perry Werneck have been building ooRexx for SUSE and other > distros on SUSE's Build Service for a while now. It's available from SUSE's > official repositories. > > This is the devel project, for SUSE-based distros and RHEL: > > https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/devel:languages:misc/ooRexx > > And this is Perry's branch, for other distros (including Fedora, Debian and > Ubuntu): > > https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:PerryWerneck:pw3270/ooRexx > > We did rewrite the SPECs and added a couple of patches, though. We could work > something out if someone needs maintainer access to it. > > > > > > SUSE > > Erico Mendonça > Dedicated Support Engineer > > (Work)+55 (61) 8594-9557 > (Main) +55 (11) 3345-3900 > > (Personal) +55 (61) 9115-3256 > > > [email protected] > > > > > >>>> René Jansen <[email protected]> 03/06/15 13:31 >>> > Dan and others, > > I am working on this issue. In the meantime, we have a small group building > ooRexx on their own machines, as an interim solution. I have, unfortunately, > fallen ill a week ago, but right before that, I have spoken to Mark Hessling > and Chip Davis about a new build machine, and to the small group of > volunteers who are building ooRexx ‘at home’. > > In the meantime, I still need to receive the KVM code that sets up the VM’s; > there is no need for the build machine to be in one place though, we might > also set up a series of machines around the world and coordinate the builds > centrally, or even just have a scheduled pull & build from crontab. My > preference however is a Jenkins instance that delivers meaningful feedback to > the developer that did a checkin and gives us a dashboard to look at the > status of the platform builds. > > At the moment I am most interested to get in touch with people who can > provide support for less used platforms. What we need to build is a community > that can support ooRexx on different platforms and can share the burden of > work that needs to be done; automation is our friend here and needs to be set > up quickly. > > At the moment, the core building group consists of: > > Jean-Louis Faucher: MacOSX Ubuntu Windows 8.1, Publican (Documentation) > Michael Lueck: Ubuntu, Debian > René Jansen: RaspPi(debian) MacOSX z/OS Linux for Z > > Dave Jones (Linux for Z) > Enrico Sorichetti (Cmake & Clang (MacOSX, WindowsXP)) > > > > > In the coming weeks, we will be working on tests for 5.0, and additional > installers for 4.2.0. At the moment, I am not sure what part of the testsuite > is cleared by 5.0, and I would like to be able to divide up that work between > some people over different platforms. I think the building will need to get > priority after we have cleared that hurdle. > > One of the things that the team is going to be working on, is the ‘portable’ > version of ooRexx, which can be installed from zip archive and will need no > admin authorities. If done well, this should also cover some X86 Linux > distributions where we do not have a build. Also, more work needs to go into > the package managers like yum, apt-get and brew, not to mention docker and > vagrant images, because those seem the current wave of how people want to get > their software. > > I will be putting up a table of builders on the oorexx website, and I think > it would be a good idea if we put the names over there of the people who want > to take first responsibility for a platform (OS, version, instruction set > architecture. When we have sorted things out, the build machine will follow > soon. > > At the moment we miss Solaris, AIX, Beaglebone, z/VM - who steps up? > > best regards, > > René. > >> On 3 jun. 2015, at 17:15, Dan Carter <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Jon, what are the characteristics (bitness, OS, etc.) that are needed? >> > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
