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On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:34:13 +0100 "Fernando J. Pereda" |
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<ferdy@g.o> wrote: |
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| On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:23:00PM -0500, Seemant Kulleen wrote: |
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| > Third, the best proposal I've seen here is for developers to get |
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| > shell accounts on alternate architectures. There's quite a few of |
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| > them floating around, and I'm pretty sure the arch teams will help |
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| > you get a shell on one of the boxes somewhere. Some of the arches |
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| > even have shell boxes for that purpose sitting at OSU or |
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| > something. This would work for at least the console applications |
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| > (the visual stuff will be a little trickier). |
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| Just to add a little thing here: |
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| Arch teams have been using vnc through ssh to test visual stuff like |
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| gnome, kde, xfce and their respective mothers, for years. |
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| So testing visual stuff remotely *is* possible. |
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Kind of... You won't, for example, have picked up the endian bug in |
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urxvt by doing that. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org |
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Web : http://ciaranm.org/ |
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