Re:Running OS X Mavericks under QEMU with KVM
by Alupis on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @06:38PM
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if you must buy special hardware just to compile code, well... that's not normal for any other eco-system's developers. Nor is having to pay for the privilege of being a developer... nor pay for dev tools, etc.
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Re:Running OS X Mavericks under QEMU with KVM
by sosborn on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @07:01PM
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You don't have to pay for dev tools (Xcode is free). You only have to pay if you want to distribute through the App Store or, for iOS, test on a device.
Re:Running OS X Mavericks under QEMU with KVM
by Gracana on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @09:28PM
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But I already own a mac, and it's fantastic hardware that I can do development for anything on, and the dev tools for OS X are free.
Re:Running OS X Mavericks under QEMU with KVM
by stormbrew on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @09:34PM
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But you can't pay a fraction of a cent per hour to run your unit or integration tests for every commit unless you set up the infrastructure to do so yourself.
Though now that travis-ci has beta support for osx, this is changing. But probably at a much greater cost and complexity than it could have without the VM restriction on the license.