New applications build machine
We need a new build machine, particularly for Android work whose builds take a lot longer than Desktop builds in tor-browser-build
, but unlike Desktop builds are essentially required to do daily dev work. This slow iteration time really sucks, so a faster build machine for Android development is a must.
This new machine should be an upgrade from the current tb-build-03
in most all regards: processor cores, memory size+speed, and disk space+speed (tb-build-03
's bandwidth is sufficient).
In theory, we can minimize disk usage if the build machine has a 'common' area each user soft-links their tor-browser-build/out
directory to, so that we do not all have to make duplicates of build tool-chains, libraries, etc (@boklm: please correct me if I'm wrong here and this is a bad idea). Such a scheme could also help things on tb-build-03
as well (see: #40735 (closed) )