Re: OT: cross platform tests? SF compile farm is dead

[Guido Draheim]

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