Context: I've been awarded a grant by the PSF to fix or replace my old
MacBook Pro which recently broke, which I use mostly for developing Python.
I'm considering whether to buy a Mac Mini (old, used) instead of fixing the
MacBook, which would also have the advantage of being able to be on 24/7
and
More builders is good imo. I run the other osx builder on a previous gen
macbook pro, I'll send you the script I use to set it up if that's helpful.
m
On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 11:31:25PM +0300, Tal Einat wrote:
> Context: I've been awarded a grant by the PSF to fix or replace my old
> MacBook Pro
On Aug 2, 2019, at 16:31, Tal Einat wrote:
> So, would there be interest in another Mac in our fleet? Is it important
> enough to be worth the (reasonable) effort? I would be willing to keep it
> on an old version of macOS, or always the one-before-latest, if that would
> help.
Another macOS buil
On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 04:42:24PM -0400, Ned Deily wrote:
> I have ideas of providing a set of VM-based macOS buildbots for various
> releases but that's not going to happen right away.
MacOS is hard to run in virtualbox - do you have a better way of emulating it?
It would be nice if these were s
On Aug 2, 2019, at 16:50, Matt Billenstein wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 04:42:24PM -0400, Ned Deily wrote:
>> I have ideas of providing a set of VM-based macOS buildbots for various
>> releases but that's not going to happen right away.
>
> MacOS is hard to run in virtualbox - do you have
On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 12:02 AM Ned Deily wrote:
> I 've had great success over the years running macOS VMs in VMWare
Fusion. I totally depend on them on building python.org macOS installers.
I have VMs for the most recent updates of all macOS releases back to 10.5
and can run them under Fusion o
On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 11:42 PM Ned Deily wrote:
>
> On Aug 2, 2019, at 16:31, Tal Einat wrote:
> > So, would there be interest in another Mac in our fleet? Is it important
> > enough to be worth the (reasonable) effort? I would be willing to keep it
> > on an old version of macOS, or always the
On Aug 2, 2019, at 17:22, Tal Einat wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 12:02 AM Ned Deily wrote:
>
> > I 've had great success over the years running macOS VMs in VMWare Fusion.
> > I totally depend on them on building python.org macOS installers. I have
> > VMs for the most recent updates of al
On Sat, Aug 03, 2019 at 12:29:18AM +0300, Tal Einat wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 11:42 PM Ned Deily wrote:
> Ideally it would be doing all of the build on tmpfs or similar, both
> for speed and to avoid degrading the SSD quickly. I'd definitely need
> a nice chunk of RAM for that.
>
> Next ste
