Adam Ruppe donates Windows cycles to dmd/phobos

[Tim Matthews]

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.