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Which is a real shame. It means that testing OSX software is significantly more expensive than testing software on any other popular OS due to the need for a Ma
by stormbrew 12y ago
Which is a real shame. It means that testing OSX software is significantly more expensive than testing software on any other popular OS due to the need for a Mac host.
- Alupis 12y agoBeing an Apple developer is very (overly, maybe excessively?) expensive.
- Gracana 12y agoWell, not really. It is a popular argument though.
- Alupis 12y agoif 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.
- sosborn 12y agoYou 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.
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- Gracana 12y agoBut 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.
- stormbrew 12y agoBut 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.