[Python-Dev] Snake farm (original) (raw)

Neal Norwitz neal@metaslash.com
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 18:51:01 -0500

As some of you may have noticed, I recently checked in a bunch of fixes that deal with portability. I have been granted access to the snake farm, which allows me to test python on different architectures.

The snake farm architectures include:

    HPUX 11
    AIX 4.2 & 4.3
    Linux 2.4 & 2.2/Alpha
    Solaris 8
    SunOS 4.1.1

I am mostly testing 2.3, but can test 2.2 as well.

Right now, there is no easy way to tell if a bug on SF is specific to a particular OS/architecture. There are already Macintosh and Windows categories, perhaps a UNIX category should be added? In the meantime, feel free to assign UNIX platform specific problems to me. I know there are some FreeBSD problems. There is a FreeBSD machine in the SF compile farm (ssh to compile.sf.net). Just in case someone wants to try to fix the FreeBSD bugs. :-)

Neal