Bug#437326: boinc-client: please support PS3 platform

[Frank S. Thomas]

Hi Thibaut,

On Sunday 16 September 2007, Thibaut VARENE wrote:
> On 9/16/07, Frank S. Thomas <frank at thomas-alfeld.de> wrote:
> > Ok, so a good solution for your problem would be, if it were possible to
> > set the platform name, which uses the client for identification, in the
> > client's configuration file cc_config.xml, because the alternate platform
> > mechanism is not applicable in your situation. Right?
>
> Richtig! ;-)

I just had a look at the code and specifying an alternate platform in the 
cc_config.xml is possible in only three lines of code, see the attached 
patch. I've tested it with a i686-pc-linux-gnu client, after adding 
<alt_platform>windows_intelx86</alt_platform> to the <options> element in 
cc_config.xml and attaching PrimeGrid (which only offers applications for 
Windows) to my client, it indeed downloaded the windows_intelx86 application 
and a workunit. Could you please try this patch yourself and verify that it 
works for you.
However I'm not sure that this is the right sollution, because IMHO it should 
be possible to set more than one alternate platforms. Instead of a single 
elment, it should be possible to have something like this:
<alternate_platforms>
  <platform>alternative_platform</platform>
  <platform>another_alternative_platform</platform>
  <platform>a_third_alternative_platform</platform>
</alternate_platforms>
What do you think?
 
Grüße,
Frank
-- 
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