Ask HN: A site which crawls and compiles
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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 ?
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