[Boost-testing] Re: [testing] Possible changes to testing..

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-09 14:11:25

Caleb Epstein <caleb.epstein_at_[hidden]> writes:

> On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 20:16:53 -0600, Rene Rivera
> <grafik.list_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> For along time now one of my objectives has been to use BuildBot
>> (http://buildbot.sf.net/) to improve the management of running the
>> regression tests. For those who don't feel like reading about that
>> software here's a quick summary:
>
> BuildBot sounds like a better overall paradigm for initiating tests,
> but according to the README:
>
> * slaves can be behind a firewall if they can still do checkout
>
> This would make it impossible for me to use.  I run the regression
> tests on a firewalled Solaris machine (with Sun C++ 5.3 and g++ 3.4.3)
> that has only HTTP GET/PUT and FTP access through a proxy server. 

Can you tunnel ssh through HTTP somehow?

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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