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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Re:not to be a jerk but... by Anonymous Coward · 2007-03-10 19:20 · Score: 5, Funny

I think thats kind of the point. Its more like write once, debug everywhere.
Re:Industry moving forward by ZenShadow · 2007-03-10 20:15 · Score: 4, Funny

Yes, because all those rich web applications will run on... rich web applications?

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Solution: Rent some zombies from some hax0rz! by Anonymous Coward · 2007-03-10 20:24 · Score: 2, Funny

Finally a legit use......