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

[Brian Hechinger]

> > 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?

we had a test environment consisting of one of every model phone switch and
a couple sparc20 boxes (the machine that this ran on in the field)  but it
was located in the data center with the build machine.

-brian