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

[Charles Strahan]

This is great news :)

Rob, do you know how much of a difference the additional Mac Minis have
made?

Also, to which address can I ship a Mac Mini? If another Mini would make
a difference, I'd be more than happy to buy and ship one to the
foundation.

Charles

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015, at 12:12 PM, Rob Vermaas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Daniel Peebles <pumpkingod at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I don't have a good sense of how many the foundation can keep, but for now
> > I'm not concerned about us having too many :) the more we get, the more
> > responsive we'll be.
> >
> > As it stands, I think we have two (oldish) Darwin cores on Hydra today, so
> > when my 4-core box arrives (assuming it works well) it should give us more
> > than 3x the current power :) I paid $589 for it and another $55 for shipping
> > from the US. Most of the ones for sale on eBay are the newer (but not
> > newest) generation and are thus a bit more expensive than the one I got.
> >
> > I think we'd be in a reasonably comfortable place if we could get 3 or 4
> > more of those boxes, but if we could get more I obviously wouldn't complain.
> >
> > I'd love for us to have Darwin be a nearly first-class citizen of nixpkgs,
> > but potential adopters (and thus contributors) are going to be turned off if
> > they need to recompile the world if they get anywhere near master.
> 
> Thanks to Dan for arranging an extra (powerful) Mac Mini and donating
> it to the Foundation!
> 
> Additionally, in the next few weeks, the NixOS Foundation will buy 2
> more Mac Mini's, which, together with Dan's Mac Mini and the existing
> one, should improve our Darwin build times significantly. We will look
> for further expansion of the Mac fleet once we get more information on
> the effects of the additional machines.
> 
> Cheers,
> Rob
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