Alternatives To SF.net's CompileFarm?

Posted by kdawson on Saturday March 10, 2007 @07:07PM from the in-search-of-iron dept.

cronie writes "Not long ago, SourceForge.net announced the shutdown of the Compile Farm — a collection of computers running a wide variety of OSes, available for compiling and testing open source projects. SF.net stated their resources 'are best used at this time in improving other parts' of the service. I consider this sad news for the OSS community, because portability is one of the strengths of OSS, and not many of us have access to such a variety of platforms to compile and test our software on. As a consequence, I expect many projects dropping support for some of the platforms they can't get access to. Are there any sound alternatives with at least some popular OS/hardware combinations? Any plans to create one? (Perhaps Google or IBM might come up with something?)"

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Build your own by Gerald · 2007-03-11 05:49 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Why not build your own? Old PPCs, SPARCs, Alphas, and Intels are cheap on eBay. The software to create your own compile farm is readily available (and in the case of Buildbot, decentralized).

Having your own farm means you don't compete for resources, and you're not beholden to some assh^W other organization's business case for shutting it down.