Adam Ruppe donates Windows cycles to dmd/phobos

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

I wanted to thank Adam Ruppe for kindly donating a ssh-accessible 
Windows machine for testing Phobos on Windows. After a fight with 
various '/' vs. '\' and other issues, I finally got the build and 
unittest process automated. Thanks, Adam!

Andrei

P.S. A few details for those interested in getting similar setups 
working - Phobos' makefile, although it runs on a Linux machine, 
connects to Windows via ssh for each compilation by running "ssh 
machinename dmd ..." instead of "dmd ...". The socket is reused such 
that only the first connection negotiates the keys (a fairly recent ssh 
feature, see e.g. 
http://www.tipcache.com/tip/Reuse_an_existing_ssh_connection_9.html), 
and the mapping of remote directories to local directories is done by 
using fuse (http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html).

P.P.S. If anyone could offer ssh access to other systems aside from 
Windows and Ubuntu (namely, other Linux distros and OSX) that would be 
great - let Walter or me know. The account should only be able to run 
dmd and won't be heavily used.