On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 05:12:53PM -0500, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > On 11/28/2013, 4:55 PM, Mike Hoye wrote: > >On 11/28/2013, 4:45 PM, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: > >>I'm pretty sure that gps was saying "if you're paid to work by > >>Mozilla, get a faster machine". More generally, we're all in furious > >>agreement: fast builds are good; achieving them via multiple means is > >>worthwhile; those with the option of getting faster hardware should do > >>so. > > > >That's all true, but if we end up in a place where a box with "only" 2GB > >of RAM can't build Firefox at all that will be a serious problem, and a > >major barrier to community participation. I get that this can't be true > >for phones, sure, but "official support" for Firefox shouldn't just mean > >"you can run Firefox on this platform", it should as often as possible > >also mean "you can build Firefox on this platform." > > We won't get there, at least not any time soon. Which is why I'm > asking people to file bugs if the unified build stuff has caused > that limitation to appear. Hardware that could build our code two > weeks ago should not be considered as "inadequate" because of my > work here, that's all I'm saying. :-)
That being said, I could be wrong, but I doubt a machine with 2GB, except if it has many cores, will have much problems compiling unified sources. Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
