I Hate the Cashew

[Eli Wapniarski]

On Saturday 31 January 2009 22:17:15 John5342 wrote:
> 2009/1/31 Eli Wapniarski <eli at orbsky.homelinux.org>
>
> > I was thinking the same thing myself. But, I only have resources to be
> > able to
> > test things on Fedora version I currently have installed on my computer.
> > And
>
> This is not such an issue as mock can build packages for multiple versions
> of Fedora on the same machine. Thats what i do quite successfully. As for
> other architectures koji can build on all the available versions and
> architectures that Fedora supports.
>
> > even if I did have the resources to test on 5 different platforms plus 3
> > others in developemnt,
>
> Most of the rest of us dont have machines for all the versions and
> platforms available. We test what we can and the rest we have to rely on
> feedback.
>
> > I'm not really sure that I would have the time to reliably do the qa
> > needed to ensure everything is working as development progresses.
>
> Time is indeed  the biggest issue. The good news is most of the simpler
> packages are quite easy to package once and then just occasionally do
> fixes, updates or rebuilds to cope with incompatibilities/upstream updates.
> Good thing with plasma applets are they are for the most part not required
> by other parts of the system so failure in an applet should only affect the
> applet itself.
>

OK... If somebody would point me to the documentation regarding what's 
involved, I will certainly look it over and consider it.

Eli


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