[ruby-dev:35441] Re: [ruby-core:17623] Re: We'll release 1.8.6/1.8.7 this Friday

卜部です。

まったく個人的な思いつきですけど、Rubyアソシエーションでなにかやっていた
だけるのであれば、Appleからこんなオファーが来てることですし、受け皿に
なってくれると嬉しいなあ。

Laurent Sansonetti wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter
> <[e-mail]> wrote:
>   
>> Igal Koshevoy wrote:
>>     
>>> Michal Suchanek wrote:
>>>       
>>>>  Setting up VMs for Windows or some BSDs should be easy. However, OS X
>>>>  cannot be virtualized so only people with apple hardware running
>>>>  that thing can test.
>>>>         
>>> Running OS X in a VM works well, although it's a rather slow and the
>>> legality is fuzzy:
>>>   http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Vmware_how_to
>>>
>>>       
>>>>  There is the possibility to test on Darwin but it would be probably
>>>>  hard to set up environment identical to current OS X.
>>>>         
>>> Agreed, it'd be best to use a full copy of OS X to properly simulate this.
>>> Most Rails developers use OS X, so it's important to support that platform.
>>>
>>>       
>>>>  There seem to be many people with OS X desktops but i am not sure
>>>>  there are many OS X servers free to run some untested code.
>>>>         
>>> True. We can either ask for donations of a machine or run this off a
>>> service similar to http://www.macminicolo.net/
>>>       
>> Honestly I'd almost like to see Apple step up to the plate here. They're
>> shipping Ruby and sponsoring work on MacRuby/RubyCocoa now. If anyone could
>> arrange to have an OS X machine hosted and available for regression testing
>> it would be them.
>>
>> Laurent? Any chance of help here?
>>     
>
> Sorry for the late reply, I was discussing with my management.
>
> Apple cannot provide access to a hosted machine, but we can provide a
> decent Mac with a copy of the latest version of Mac OS X on an
> infinite loan basis, so that the Ruby community can host it somewhere
> and do regression testing on it (as well as any other things). The
> machine would also be administered by the Ruby community.
>
> I'm not really sure if it's what you're looking for, but if it helps,
> drop me a note in private and we will discuss further!
>
> Regards,
> Laurent
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