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

[Mario Fux]

Am Donnerstag 17 März 2011, 18.06:51 schrieb John Layt:

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?

Yes. Nightly. Two minutes ago I was talking with the local IT guy and he'll 
search something for me till next week. Probably a G4 or G5. And than I start 
to setup the system and see what I can achive.

> 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.

If the server is good enough we'll see. I keep the list informed of course.

griits
Mario