[rescue] Re: [SunHELP] Solaris 9, First thoughts

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 08:43:53PM -0500, Brian Hechinger wrote:

> actually, we used to do this at Lucent.  the developers had really slow(ish)
> sparc boxes on their desks and had access to the source via CVS.  then when
> a build needed to be done the buildmaster (this guy's whole job was to build
> the product, and also to dump it to tape and distribute it to the customers)
> would check out the tree and do a build on the build machine.  690MP with a
> ton of memory and quad SM41s.  monsterous at the time.  now this was a huge
> piece of software that only worked in conjunction with a phone switch, so it
> wasn't really something they could test on their workstations anyway, but
> still, it is quite possible to build such a setup.

How do you know your code works if you can't test it?

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd