compile farm?

[Anders F Björklund]

Darren Weber wrote:

> This suggestion may be too complicated, but it's a thought.   
> Suppose it is possible to create a "virtual machine" or some kind  
> of encapsulated "clean environment" (perhaps like a java sdk or  
> something), which can contain any of the environments for OSX  
> (10.x), or at least a standardized subset that is required by  
> default for macports builds.  Suppose such an environment could be  
> run from within any OSX system as a virtual machine. Suppose such a  
> "virtual environment" could be distributed on an Xgrid system, it  
> could provide a distributed build system for macports.

This is called a "chroot", and is what MPAB uses to build.

See http://trac.macports.org/wiki/MPAB for all the details.

> OK, back to reality...

Has been for a long time.

--anders