Adam Ruppe donates Windows cycles to dmd/phobos

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Tim Matthews wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> I wanted to thank Adam Ruppe for kindly donating a ssh-accessible 
>> Windows machine for testing Phobos on Windows. After a fight with 
>> various '/' vs. '\' and other issues, I finally got the build and 
>> unittest process automated. Thanks, Adam!
>>
>> Andrei
>>
>> P.S. A few details for those interested in getting similar setups 
>> working - Phobos' makefile, although it runs on a Linux machine, 
>> connects to Windows via ssh for each compilation by running "ssh 
>> machinename dmd ..." instead of "dmd ...". The socket is reused such 
>> that only the first connection negotiates the keys (a fairly recent 
>> ssh feature, see e.g. 
>> http://www.tipcache.com/tip/Reuse_an_existing_ssh_connection_9.html), 
>> and the mapping of remote directories to local directories is done by 
>> using fuse (http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html).
>>
>> P.P.S. If anyone could offer ssh access to other systems aside from 
>> Windows and Ubuntu (namely, other Linux distros and OSX) that would be 
>> great - let Walter or me know. The account should only be able to run 
>> dmd and won't be heavily used.
> 
> If someone has the money, bandwidth and other resources to give 247 
> access to a machine then why don't they have a vm with all the os you 
> require? Setting up vm's is trivial and can be done using free software 
> too.

It's trivial for those who knows how to do it. For someone like me, 
setting up several VMs for various OSs would be a time-consuming 
undertaking. I wouldn't know even which are the most important distros 
to cater for.

I'm thinking of a simpler scenario in which someone already owns some 
Linux distro or OSX on an almost-always-on machine. Then it should be 
easy to create a restricted account.


Andrei