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

[Noah Kantrowitz]

> On May 25, 2016, at 8:22 AM, Thomas Güttler <guettliml at thomas-guettler.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Am 25.05.2016 um 15:55 schrieb Paul Moore:
>> On 25 May 2016 at 14:42, 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.
>> 
>> The other aspect of this is who has sufficient time/expertise to set
>> something like this up? Are you volunteering to do this?
> 
> I am volunteering for doing coordination work:
> - communication
> - layout of datastructures
> - interchange of datastructures.
> - no coding
> 
> But we need at least ten people how say "I'm willing to help"

Short answer: this is not how anything works.

Long answer: This is not a question of getting some number of people to help. If you can clone us a small army of Donalds, Nicks, and Richards then we _might_ be able to pull this off. The money isn't the problem per se, it's the human cost in upkeep for a system designed explicitly to run hostile code safely.

--Noah

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