Build farm(er)

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 08/07/2010 01:40 AM, Tomek Sowiński wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu napisał:
>
>> In terms of machines, if anyone could volunteer ssh accounts to stable
>> machines (e.g. preferably not laptops and not connected via dynamic IP,
>> though the latter is satisfactorily fixed by dyndns.org), please chime in!
>
> It would be a shame to leave out laptops. Ideally if someone lights up a computer with a build slave on it, the master could automatically
> delegate two or three builds on their lousy laptop while they're reading some article. Does anyone know a build system that supports that
> kind of dynamic work distribution? I know Hudson has slaves but AFAIK you have to register each one manually on the master. For
> thousands of personal comps going on- and offline we need automization.

When we'll have thousands, sure, laptops would be great. So far we're 
keen about the 0->1 transition :o).

Andrei