On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 8:05 PM, Cédric Krier <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 18 Mar 02:10, Vincent Bastos wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > - get a donation for such hardware (machine that can run latest > OSX) > > > to the Foundation. > > > > > > > I like the idea of a solution that all dev's can access. How about a > hosted > > solution? > > > > Happy to donate for something like this > > > > https://virtualmacosx.com/ > > or > > http://xcloud.me/ > > Hosting solution are much more expensive than buying a Mac mini at $400 for > example. For $400, we could rent: > > - a shared desktop lite 2 years. > > - a shared desktop lite for 1.5 years. > > - a dedicated for 1 year. > > The shared solution has many cons like no control on the OS, 3rd party > install on request, small amount of storage 2-5GB. > When a owned solution, we can expect at least 4 years without other > costs. > > We did the computation at the Foundation between hosted solution and > owned for the test server. Now the Foundation owns the Test server for > the same price as for 1 year of rental at OVH but we have more power > tests run about 10x faster, we expect to keep it for 4 years without > extra costs. This is because for such machine we don't need all the > reliability a data center offers (uptime, bandwidth etc.). It is not a > big deal if once per year a test doesn't run or if a developer can not > login. > By the way, any developer can request an SSH access on tycho even if it > is through a dynamic IP connection. > > -- > Cédric Krier - B2CK SPRL > Email/Jabber: [email protected] > Tel: +32 472 54 46 59 > Website: http://www.b2ck.com/ > You definitely make a good point Cedric :). In the meantime, why not let Gaurav build it to see how it goes and get an immediate fix? I don't know what is involved in building the app for Mac, how it fits in terms of the release process and I have only been here 2 minutes. I only mean to contribute to the discussion. I think that the argument about securing the future of the build a little thin because it is likely ( I hope so ) that there will always be someone on a Mac within the community to make a build. It might be a simple way for someone to contribute too. Cheers, -- *Vincent Bastos* *Lava Lab Software*
