Testing Systems? (this really should be a Discussions thread)

[pepoluan]

(This really should be a Discussions thread, especially as we don't have a specific mailing list for non-issue discussions)

So, y'all know that I've been testing PRs on the following systems:

• Windows 10: Via PyCharm, via PSCore, in Cygwin
• Ubuntu 18.04: on WSL 1.0, on VirtualBox
• Ubuntu 20.04: on VirtualBox
• FreeBSD 12.2: on VirtualBox

I'm considering dropping the Ubuntu-on-VirtualBox test systems because they practically duplicate the GitHub Actions (GA) test systems anyways. In their place, I'll implement the following:

• OpenSUSE Leap 15.2: on VirtualBox
• AlmaLinux (when it comes out): on VirtualBox

Note: I'll keep the "Ubuntu 18.04 on WSL" test system because tests have conclusively proven that WSL have some "gotchas" that need to be taken into account (e.g., this test completely fails on WSL).

Do you think I need to implement additional testing systems? Feel free to suggest additional test systems, on one condition: The suggested systems must NOT be a rolling distro, and preferably it has some kind of "LTS" edition.

(OpenSUSE Leap does not seem to have an "LTS" edition, but I'm still including it because a survey by CloudLinux seem to indicate that quite a sizable number of respondents are thinking of switching to OpenSUSE.)

[pepoluan]

If you noticed, in 7fce786 I dropped mention of AlmaLinux from README.

Reason being that for unknown reasons it runs tests really slowly, far beyond what's acceptable. Also, tests seem extremely flakey.

I've asked a question on Reddit (currently AlmaLinux's community forum as said by AlmaLinux.org themselves), and until I get an actionable (and effective) answer, I'll leave out AlmaLinux from the list.

[pepoluan]

I have half the idea of referring "Windows 10" as "WinX" 😜

As in, yanno... "WinX Club"? 😁