[Pythonmac-SIG] buildbots for OS X: G4 eMacs useful?

Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Sat Apr 24 21:45:50 CEST 2010


Chris Barker <Chris.Barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

> Bill Janssen wrote:
> > I've got 3 eMacs just sitting around, and thought I'd deploy them as OS X
> > Python buildbots, if they'd be useful.  They're 1 GHz G4 machines,
> > with 640 MB of memory, running Tiger
> 
> If there is a need -- it would be great to keep one on Tiger -- it's a
> pain to build on leopard and have it work on tiger.

Yes, I can keep one or two on Tiger, and upgrade the others to Leopard.
I don't think I can put Snow Leopard on G4s, though.

My question is, do the machines have enough oomph to build and test on?

Bill


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