[python-committers] Travis CI: macOS is now blocking -- remove macOS from Travis CI?

[Barry Warsaw]

On Sep 19, 2017, at 19:33, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> If you find a macOS CI platform with more capacity, please let me know :-)
> 
> Travis has been totally underwater of late, but I don't know of any alternatives; probably because operating a fleet of macOS builders is a giant pain. You need Apple hardware, and it turns out you can either purchase a trashcan or a mac mini, and neither of those is really designed for a server farm.
> 
> If anyone here can magically whisper in Tim Cook's ear, can you ask him to license macOS to AWS or Google Cloud or something?

Brett will love my musings: one could imagine a fleet of hackintoshes talking to a flexible CI runner infrastructure as is available on some alternative hosting platforms.  Not that I, ahem, know anything about that.

Cheers,
-Barry

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