Re: Can we enable CI for legacy systems?

2021-01-25 Thread wowfunha...@gmail.com
> The rest are available at . That link contains old versions of Xcode for me, but not old operating systems. I wonder, Joshua, do you have a paid Apple developer account? (I do not.) > And half the time, when I try to create a new VM using an old ver

Re: Can we enable CI for legacy systems?

2021-01-25 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 25, 2021, at 01:55, Joshua Root wrote: > On 2021-1-25 18:48 , Andrew Janke wrote: >> How do you download the installers for Big Sur and for older versions of >> macOS? I've always had to go through the App Store to download installers, >> and what it makes available for me is dependent

Re: Can we enable CI for legacy systems?

2021-01-25 Thread Ruben Di Battista
Hi Ryan, thanks for your answer. If I configured a server I own to run CI jobs for old systems (I was thinking about using a custom Gitlab runner libvirt https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/executors/custom_examples/libvirt.html for that and maybe), it's gonna be something useful that Macports could po

Re: Can we enable CI for legacy systems?

2021-01-25 Thread Andrew Janke
On 1/25/21 10:31 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Jan 25, 2021, at 01:55, Joshua Root wrote: > >> On 2021-1-25 18:48 , Andrew Janke wrote: >>> How do you download the installers for Big Sur and for older versions of >>> macOS? I've always had to go through the App Store to download installers, >>>

Re: Can we enable CI for legacy systems?

2021-01-25 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 25, 2021, at 10:03, Andrew Janke wrote: > On 1/25/21 10:31 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> On Jan 25, 2021, at 01:55, Joshua Root wrote: >> >>> On 2021-1-25 18:48 , Andrew Janke wrote: How do you download the installers for Big Sur and for older versions of macOS? I've always had to

Re: Can we enable CI for legacy systems?

2021-01-25 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 25, 2021, at 10:02, Ruben Di Battista wrote: > If I configured a server I own to run CI jobs for old systems (I was thinking > about using a custom Gitlab runner libvirt > https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/executors/custom_examples/libvirt.html for > that and maybe), it's gonna be someth

Re: Can we enable CI for legacy systems?

2021-01-25 Thread Ruben Di Battista
Ok, thanks Ryan. I'll think about it. I'd do it on Gitlab, since they allow custom executors for their CI and I'm familiar with it. Reading about Github Actions, that does not seem possible and I'm not extremely familiar with Github APIs. If someone has ideas, feel free to send them my way. I'll

Re: Can we enable CI for legacy systems?

2021-01-25 Thread Ken Cunningham
there is another way to download older os versions. It leverages the netboot method that lets me boot from and install, from Apple, a new copy of 10.7 on my MacBookPro 9,1 during a rescue mode boot. There are various python scripts available that ask you what system you want, then download it w

Re: Can we enable CI for legacy systems?

2021-01-25 Thread Clemens Lang
Hi, GitHub Actions supports self-hosted runners, see https://docs.github.com/en/actions/hosting-your-own-runners/about-self-hosted-runners I personally wouldn't have a problem with optional CI steps running on other people's machines, as long as that's for pull requests and we don't use the re

99 bottles of beer on the wall...

2021-01-25 Thread Ken Cunningham
the PR list is < 100 for the first time in a very very long time…. Keep ‘er going! K