Re: OT: cross platform tests? SF compile farm is dead

[Dirk]

Guido Draheim wrote:
> Dirk schrieb:
>> Guido Draheim wrote:
>>> https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=665363
>>>> As of 2007-02-08, SourceForge.net Compile Farm service
>>>> has been officially discontinued.
>>>> We feel that our resources are best used at this time
>>>> in improving other parts of our existing SourceForge.net
>>>> service offering, and in introducing other high-demand
>>>> features. There are no immediate plans to offer a
>>>> replacement for our Compile Farm service.
>>> I was using the sourceforge compile farm for cross platform
>>> support of my projects - it was flaky in the past (to say the
>>> best) but I did not know a better place where you can get
>>> access to non-Linux machines easily. So where to go else?
>>>
>>> What's your way to test for cross platform support?
>>> Anywhere else to get access to a compile farm?
>>>
>>> cheers, Guido
>> VMware
>>
> 
> Yeah, but wouldn't cover ppc-osx or sparc-solaris etc but in
> reality I don't have install CDs either to get them setup'd.
> *sigh* sure I could replace the bunch of ix86 Linux boxes
> on the SF CF (and Win32 had to be done in VMware in the
> past anyway) but that's hardly cross platform.
> 
> The only fallback I see so far is to get back to some old
> contacts that were providing access to one of their
> machines - usually in remote places. But my experiences
> did show that it is quite PITA - not for least that
> everytime they reinstall the machine they forget about
> any ssh key given by external partners plus you can't
> quite be sure what's on the machine the next day. If it's
> available at all.
> 
> oh well, Guido
> 

Alright,
personally, I would rather ditch ppc and sparc support than relying upon
infrastructures (for development) that i don't control (compile farm).

But you can get both architectures for _very_ small money on ebay. Sparc
pizza boxes even look pretty.

Dirk