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Alternatives To SF.net's CompileFarm?

Posted by kdawson on 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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  1. Re:Virtualisation negates the need for a compile f by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's not much use for testing compiling on Solaris on SPARC64, or Tru64 on Alpha, etc...