Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Perverse bug with gec?

[Till G. B. <til...@in...>]

Eric Bezault wrote:
> Ber...@in... wrote:
>>> However I'm not sure they have enough resources and skills in
>> Right. Not only are we next to destitute, we're kind of dumb as
>> well.
> 
> Of course that's not what I meant. If SourceForge stopped providing 
> this offer, it's because it took them much effort to maintain these 
> system up and running, with constant system administration knowledge 
> on many different operating systems to keep these machines uptodate. 
> If Origo can provide such service to the open source community, then 
> that would be great. When this offer will be available, I will
> probably be the first one to use it. Note that in the sentence above
> I used "When" and not "If", because from what I understand from your
> answer, this should happen in the near future. So I cannot wait any
> longer.

Dear all -

thanks for raising this question! We are aware of the possibilities of
offering compilation facilities. If we are not offering it yet, it is
merely a question of manpower and time that prevented us from doing so.
What I read in this thread shows that others are struggling with the
considerable maintenance overhead compilation farms bring.

For Origo this will be different - we will offer API for compilation
machines to hook into our platform. Developers on exotic platforms can
then offer compilation services to other teams. We will host and
maintain a couple of the most popular platforms ourselves, but the real
added value will be coming from outsiders that help.

In the same spirit we are also trying to integrate numerous code-sanity
tools.

As usual, stay tuned for improvements on Origo.

thanks,
	Till