[Aldor-l] Testers

[Bill Page]

On 12/18/07, Pippijn van Steenhoven wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been doing a lot of work on Aldor. A lot of refactory and still more
> to come. I have made some changes that make me unsure of whether it
> still works on all platforms. I am going to publish my changes somewhen
> today or tomorrow and will announce the location then. It would be great
> if people could test the changes and notify me of any compilation or
> runtime issues. Currently, you need a POSIX compliant shell and the
> GNU C compiler to compile and run the compiler and tests. I am not
> sure how many platforms have that and I will need to write an NMakefile
> for windows users. That is not likely going to happen very soon, though,
> as I will be absent for two weeks after christmas.
>

How extensive are the changes? What are your goals in making these
changes? Can you provide a brief roadmap? Are you moving towards a
more autoconf compatible style of makefile?

> HP offers testdrive accounts (http://www.testdrive.hp.com/) where one can test
> compilation of software on many different platforms. I will try to compile it
> there. Maybe others can help there, as well?
>

I have an account there and have built some versions of Axiom on some
of these systems:

http://axiom-wiki.newsynthesis.org/HPTestDrive

Once you publish your changes I will try a compiling Aldor on a few of
these and probably some other systems.

BTW, how do you plan to publish your changes? Would it make sense to
create a branch in the Aldor SVN repository to allow you to post
directly to the repository without affecting the current main branch
(trunk)?

Regards,
Bill Page.