Fix for bug #1629

[Daniel Morissette]

Umberto Nicoletti wrote:
> I think we need to setup a server that will check out the sources
> every night from cvs and will build them along with performing the
> tests. The report would then be mailed to the mapserver-dev.
> 

A central server is one option, but that limits us to testing a single 
platform, what's running on that specific server.

Another interesting approach is what libcurl does, they have a reporting 
system as part of their build/test environment, so user/developers can 
setup automated builds/tests on one of their servers and have them 
report the results to a central repository. This gives daily reports of 
the state of the package on various platforms:

http://curl.haxx.se/auto/

I'm not arguing against the central server, that would have benefits 
too, for instance for testing RDBMS and other complicated stuff, but a 
distributed build/test reporting system would possibly give us even more.

Daniel
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