Re: Comments on the website from people on twitter...

[James Carthew]

If you guys can get auto-building working on linux, I'd be tempted to setup a 12-core Mac pro to create daily builds of the entire gnustep APIs and related applications (that I can get my hands on). I'm about to acquire one of those towers cheaply.

On 9 August 2013 18:21, David Chisnall <David.Chisnall@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

On 9 Aug 2013, at 03:00, Austin Clow <dr_clow@mac.com> wrote:

> Here: http://www.gnustep.org/resources/sources.html
> FreeBSD
> cd /usr/ports/devel/gnustep
> make install clean

I completely agree that this should work.  I am currently in the process of updating the GNUstep ports in FreeBSD.  I've got updates to the core libraries done and I'm making clang 3.3, libobjc2, and the non-fragile ABI hard dependencies for everything.  I still, however, need to check that all of the ports that use the core libraries still compile after the switch and either update them or cull them from the ports tree.

In the next few weeks, the new package building infrastructure for FreeBSD should be online, and then we'll be pushing out new package sets every 2 weeks[1], so updates should be relatively painless and users will just be able to do pkg update to get them.

David

[1] It really amazes me how much faster computers have become in the last decade.  We're now building the entire ports collection (around 25K packages) on a single machine, and it takes about a day per architecture (we'll probably end up with one build machine per arch).  When the old build infrastructure was designed, it was a complex distributed system that did builds across a whole rack of machines and collected the results.

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