[KDE/Mac] Re: Build server for KDE on mac

[John Layt]

On Thursday 17 Mar 2011 11:42:24 Mario Fux wrote:
> Morning
> 
> I'm new to this list (but subscribed now so no need to CC: me ;-) and read
> the mails from the last 3-4 month in the archive of this list.
> 
> This week my professor (I study and work part-time at the institute for
> education of university of Zurich) gave me the OK to setup a KDE build
> server for mac on an older Apple server inhouse. Next week I plan to talk
> again with the IT guy and then start to set up the machine.
> 
> Are there any hints from your side? Is such a build server useful?

As someone who's broken the Mac build on a few occasions I think this will be 
very useful :-)  I had thought about approaching the KDE eV to fund a build 
server but the problem was finding someone to build and run it.  I guess yours 
will only be a nightly build, otherwise it could get a bit cpu intensive?  

One reason for having our own build server would be the ability for KDE devs 
to log in and build development branches so we can test patches don't break 
build _before _ we push to master (I do have a Mac, but rebooting to test is 
such a pain :-).  If you can think of a way to do that on your server it would 
be brilliant.

Cheers!

John.