RE: [spambayes-dev] 1.0 Build Testing (please!)
[Richie]
This is because SHGetFolderPath isn't available on Win98 pre-IE5. I don't know whether we care about that - there are probably no such machines in the real world.
I don't care :) Given that this isn't new, I'm guessing that it's not much of an issue.
That's why I keep a clean machine in VMWare.
I'm not familiar with VMWare. Is it the stuff at www.vmware.com?
It's not cheap (even when you're paying in UK pounds 8-) but it pays for itself in saved time by preventing this kind of thing from happening.
I probably can't justify it, sadly, since SpamBayes is really my only use case. It's pretty rare that I create anything else that needs to be used outside of my own systems. I gather you would do the actual build in VMWare, and not just testing? (This is rather off-topic, but I'm curious). =Tony Meyer
[Tony]
I'm not familiar with VMWare. Is it the stuff at www.vmware.com?
Yes, specifically http://www.vmware.com/products/desktop/ws_features.html VMWare Workstation is a software emulation of a PC's hardware, so you can install a whole operating system within it to have a machine within a machine. When I run Linux, it's within VMWare running on my Windows machine. Likewise Windows 98 (because my real OS is XP).
I gather you would do the actual build in VMWare, and not just testing? (This is rather off-topic, but I'm curious).
Yes, to make sure I wasn't picking up any cruft from last time. VMWare lets you take a snapshot of the virtual machine, so I have a snapshot taken at the end of installing Windows 98. I've tested the new build and it all works fine for me, except for uploading an Outlook Express mailbox for bulk training - it only trained on one message out of the mailbox. Has anyone else seen this? My other problem is probably not our fault (and probably the result of trying to make by brain work first thing in the morning) but I set up an Outlook Express filter for To: "spam," and it didn't fire, even though SpamBayes was correctly prepending "spam," to the To: header. Am I missing something? The filer was set to work on the Inbox, and to move messages to a "Possible Spam" folder, but they are staying in the Inbox. SpamBayes is working as advertised, but if there's something wrong with Outlook Express that prevents the feature from being useful, it needs a rethink. As I say, it's probably me. 8-) -- Richie Hindle richie@entrian.com
Tony Meyer wrote:
[Richie]
That's why I keep a clean machine in VMWare.
I'm not familiar with VMWare. Is it the stuff at www.vmware.com?
It's not cheap (even when you're paying in UK pounds 8-) but it pays for itself in saved time by preventing this kind of thing from happening.
I probably can't justify it, sadly, since SpamBayes is really my only use case. It's pretty rare that I create anything else that needs to be used outside of my own systems.
I gather that a lot of your non-SpamBayes work is also in Python (wish I had that luxury! <wink>) so you may not have need for an MSDN subscription either. But if you do, the MSDN Universal subscription includes a product called Virtual PC that is very similar to VMWare. They each have their pros and cons, but pretty much the same basic functionality. -- Kenny Pitt
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