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 _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
