On Jan 15, 2013, at 5:03 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 1/15/13 5:40 PM, Cook, Rich wrote: >> >> On Jan 15, 2013, at 4:19 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: >> >>>>> >>>>> And who has the time or the Mac to perform this task, which can take days >>>>> because some packages cannot be compiled in parallel make jobs? And who >>>>> has such a big external disk left over? (And I am not mentioning the cost >>>>> of electrical energy.) >>>> >>> >>> The best alternative is to crowdsource it by asking on the mailing lists >>> or the IRC. There's a reasonable chance that _somebody_ has the >>> relevant package installed. >> >> It sounds like it boils down to "who has a mac to dedicate where we can run >> a script and generate a few builds per week" and surely there must be one >> spare mac out there for this. Having said so, I do not have such a mac >> available here. The paperwork would be a nightmare. >> > > Initially, though, it's not a few builds per week, but one batch build > of everything (or at least as much as possible), which takes up to a few > weeks. > > And we would need one Mac environment per supported platform, currently: > > 10.5/powerpc > 10.5/i386 > 10.6/i386 > 10.6/x86_64 > 10.7/x86_64 > 10.8/x86_64 > > since there's no point building packages just to get their file contents > without actually doing a binary distribution for each configuration, too. > > Spare machines are surprisingly hard to come by.
I wonder if a corporate or university ally could be created or found. I would imagine there is a company or university with the spirit and resources to help. Stanford comes to mind. I can ask at my alma mater, UC Davis. -- ✐Richard Cook ✇ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Bldg-453 Rm-4024, Mail Stop L-557 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA ☎ (office) (925) 423-9605 ☎ (fax) (925) 423-6961 --- Information Management & Graphics Grp., Services & Development Div., Integrated Computing & Communications Dept. (opinions expressed herein are mine and not those of LLNL) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Java SE, Java EE, Eclipse, Spring, Hibernate, JavaScript, jQuery and much more. Keep your Java skills current with LearnJavaNow - 200+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Java experts. SALE $49.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122612 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
