Ask HN: A site which crawls and compiles

#1

Post by apakian » Sun, Apr 13, 2014, 2:58 PM UTC

I often find myself requiring a precompiled library or executable, and more often than not, find the process not so simple..

I recently needed a precompiled ffmpeg, and found it at http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/ Which was great - so from this I thought it would be great, if there was a site, who's primary job was to crawl GitHub, SourceForge etc, download sources and produce Builds ready for download.

Would this be useful, or even possible ? - If it is possible, what do you think, would It be handy enough, to invest sometime in me making such a crawler/compiler etc

Re: Ask HN: A site which crawls and compiles

#2

Post by MichaelAza » Sun, Apr 13, 2014, 3:02 PM UTC

Interesting idea, but I think that since different systems and projects have varying build systems and many projects can be built with different options, a more interesting project would be a cloud build system - point it a github page and give it a build command line and off it goes.

Re: Ask HN: A site which crawls and compiles

#3

Post by apakian » Sun, Apr 13, 2014, 3:43 PM UTC

MichaelAza wrote: post #2

Interesting idea, but I think that since different systems and projects have varying build systems and many projects can be built with different options, a more interesting project would be a cloud build system - point it a github page and give it a build command line and off it goes.

Yep, That's a good idea, - is there any such sites/services that do anything like this ?