Ask HN: A site which crawls and compiles

3 points by apakian 12y ago ↗ HN

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

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MichaelAza 12y ago ↗

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.

apakian 12y ago ↗

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