A lot of folks want to run tests off a GitHub action I.e. on a server somewhere.
Ideally you want your test stack to fit in a docker image. So this does suck for developers in the respect and you could imagine apple releasing a special docker image that just ran safari if they wanted to really make it easy to develop for thier platform.
However, I imagine someone will fill a server rack with cheap old macs and offer and safari mcp as a service…
A lot of folks want to run tests off a GitHub action I.e. on a server somewhere.
Understandable, but also if you're dealing with these sort of projects, you kind of have to setup that sort of automation yourself in an office/someone's house, unless you find some provider that already hosts that sort of thing, like the various Apple/vendor-specific services for that.
It's also not a very new thing really, MacStadium for example been around since like 2010 sometime.
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A lot of folks want to run tests off a GitHub action I.e. on a server somewhere. Ideally you want your test stack to fit in a docker image. So this does suck for developers in the respect and you could imagine apple releasing a special docker image that just ran safari if they wanted to really make it easy to develop for thier platform.
However, I imagine someone will fill a server rack with cheap old macs and offer and safari mcp as a service…
quote: "GitHub-hosted runners are available with Ubuntu Linux, Windows, or macOS operating systems." source: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/concepts/runners/github-h...
Understandable, but also if you're dealing with these sort of projects, you kind of have to setup that sort of automation yourself in an office/someone's house, unless you find some provider that already hosts that sort of thing, like the various Apple/vendor-specific services for that.
It's also not a very new thing really, MacStadium for example been around since like 2010 sometime.
GitHub has been providing macOS runners for a while now.