<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Aug 29, 2007, at 9:35 PM, Russell Bryant wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Another Digium software developer, Joshua Colp, has recently been working on an</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">automated build farm with virtual machines for all of the different operating</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">systems we support.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>It already has 64 and 32 bit versions of Linux (glibc and</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">uclibc) and FreeBSD, building both asterisk 1.4 and trunk (development for the</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">next major version).<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>It is still growing, with planned support for Solaris 10</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">x86/x86-64/sparc, and Mac OSX PPC/Intel.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Russell,</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>I commend these efforts but if it compiles it doesn't mean it won't crash in certain conditions much less run at all. Proper unit testing is hard to do trust me I have been reading up on the subject and in this type of environment its hard to do proper unit tests without bring up the environment and performing all tests. That in itself is not easy.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>/b</DIV></BODY></HTML>