A virtual machine for testers?

[Jerry DeLisle]

On 03/05/2014 02:44 PM, Damian Rouson wrote:
> A virtual machine with occasionally updated and patched versions of the 
> gfortran development branch might be one way to address the comments 
> I made recently about the hurdles associated with building from source.  
> 
> I would be glad to create the virtual machine and host it at 
> www.sourceryinstitute.org.  Whenever developers have big new features 
> they want tested, they could download the virtual machine, update the 
> source, apply the relevant patch, build and install a patched gfortran binary, 
> and upload the virtual machine for testers to download.  Anything that 
> lowers barrier to building might increase the community of pre-commit 
> testers.
>

A few years ago, a few of us here were doing regular builds and they were posted
to places people could get them.  I was doing daily linux-i686 builds until that
machine had a hardware failure.  I was also doing mingw, which is now being done
by the mingw team.

So, what platforms are you thinking about? All or a particular one needed.

Jerry