[pydotorg-www] [PSF-Members] Old Xserve system (macteagle)

[Georg Brandl]

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Am 15.08.2010 05:34, schrieb C. Titus Brown:
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 01:03:20PM -0400, Steve Holden wrote:
>> On 8/13/2010 12:12 PM, Cameron Laird wrote:
>> > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:21:15AM +0200, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote:
>> > 			.
>> > 			.
>> > 			.
>> >> Some while ago, Apple gave an XServe system to Guido as a gift (?),
>> >> which is now sitting mainly unused in Amsterdam. XS4ALL has now asked
>> >> that it is remvoed from the rack.
>> >>
>> >> Would anybody like to host this box, and use for some PSF purpose?
>> >> (I vaguely recall somebody already offered doing so, but forgot
>> >> the details).
>> > 			.
>> > 			.
>> > 			.
>> > Hmmmm.
>> > 
>> > I'll wildly speculate that several groups (Tkinter maintainers?
>> > 3.x-vs-2.x compatibility verifiers?  ...) would love even remote
>> > access to a well-maintained Mac OS host.  I doubt that I'm in a
>> > good position to judge what the optimum outcome of this episode
>> > is.
>> 
>> Maybe Titus Brown's team could be persuaded to host it? They already
>> have a large heap of rusting iron that comprises the hopefully not
>> entirely defunct Snakebite farm ...
> 
> I've already offered remote login access to an iMac in my lab; that's
> newer and faster and ... <crickets chirping>.
> 
> I think we need people to actually do the work.  Hardware does not seem
> to be the primary blocker on this kind of stuff, as far as I can tell.
> If it is, the PSF would be better off buying a developer a Mac laptop,
> so that they can actually test things like Tkinter directly.

AFAICS half of them have Macs already anyway...

Georg
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