On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Chris Marshall <[email protected]> wrote:
> You've pretty much hit the high spots as far as
> I know.  I had planned to set up some virtual box
> machines for such testing (and will eventually).
>
> I haven't done it myself but if you put the linux
> on a VM, you could snapshot the VM with different
> sets of dependencies installed (for example).
> Then just pick the appropriate VM to start for
> the level of testing you desire.

How do you do that? What VM do you recommend? It sounds like you
planned to use http://www.virtualbox.org/


> I suggest serial testing since after you work
> through the first flavor of OS and all the
> different PDL issues, the next will be *very*
> similar if not identical.

What is serial testing?


> OpenSolaris would be great but I don't think
> we have any recent tests with PDL at the moment.

Does that mean that PDL probably won't work on OpenSolaris? I'm pretty
new to this testing thing so I'll probably ask a few dumb questions
before I am useful.


> An issue there is the OpenGL + FreeGLUT
> dependencies since I don't think Solaris
> includes FreeGLUT by default.

Ok.

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