[Nix-dev] Set up a Sufficiently Powerful Build Farm

[Christian Theune]

Hi,

another option that I didn’t mention but researched was looking for hosted Mac machines, but I find those offensively expensive (around 60€ per smallest mac mini per month). That means the price of a machine every 10 months.

Cheers,
Christian

> On 22 Dec 2015, at 10:27, Christian Theune <ct at flyingcircus.io> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> On 29 Oct 2015, at 14:37, Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com <mailto:eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com>> wrote:
>> Thus the main problem right now is Darwin
>> builds, which are done on a single Mac mini…
> 
> This is actually also becoming a pain for me as even the channel branches aren’t populated with the most basic packages and I keep compiling the world for even the most simple package update on OS X.
> 
> What’s the biggest blocker here? Is it money for another machine? Is it someone taking care of it? Is it placing them somewhere with a reasonable uplink?
> 
> I could put one or more mac minis in our office on a reasonable big pipe (100mbit fibre up/down). Question is whether we could fund them somehow. Would a single additional machine help or do we need multiple? (For anchoring: the app store prices the smallest one at 569€ and the question is: would we rather have multiple small ones or a bigger one? Or would a bigger investment into a Mac Pro make sense?
> 
> But before going into details: what’s the biggest blocker at the moment?
> 
> Christian
> 
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