Hi, I’m putting together a Mac CircleCI config for my codebase and I need a few dependencies (e.g. pyenv to install a particular Python version). It’s easy enough to add a run step to the CircleCI config that brew installs the packages I need, but it seems wasteful and costs 2-5 minutes every CircleCI build. For Linux builds, we can define our own Docker images which have dependencies preinstalled; is there something similar for Mac executors? Or are there other options for predefining an environment for builds, so that I don’t have to sit through this repetitive environment setup every time? Thanks.
To your first question, no.
What may work is to cache the dependencies you need and then loading that cache during a build. I’d test that and compare the time it takes to load the cache vs the time a fresh install will take and see which works best for you.
Okay, I will look into that. Thanks