[Distutils] If you want wheel to be successful, provide a build server.

[Thomas Güttler]

Am 25.05.2016 um 15:56 schrieb Nick Coghlan:
> On 25 May 2016 at 23:42, Thomas Güttler <guettliml at thomas-guettler.de> wrote:
>> Am 25.05.2016 um 09:57 schrieb Alex Grönholm:
>>>
>>> Amen to that, but who will pay for it? I imagine a great deal of
>>> processing power would be required for this.
>>> How do implementors of other languages handle this?
>>
>> I talked with someone who is member of the python software foundation, and
>> he said that
>> money for projects like this is available. Of course this was no official
>> statement.
>
> No, money for a project of this scale is not available (the person you
> spoke to may have been thinking of PSF development grants, which
> typically only cover 4-12 weeks of dedicated development work by a
> single developer on a project with specific near term objectives, not
> running on ongoing service that would dwarf PyPI itself in complexity)

Yes, running a permanent build-server might be too high regular expenses.

I think providing a self hostable build server which can be started with one command
would be such a project.

Regards,
   Thomas Güttler


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