• Jacob Carlborg (9/9) Feb 22 2013 I was thinking if it would be a good idea to setup a virtual machine
• Marco Leise (15/25) Feb 22 2013 I think contributing to D requires more than a VM image
• Andrej Mitrovic (4/5) Feb 22 2013 There's this: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=11...
• 1100110 (4/9) Feb 22 2013 What I've learned is that anything can be converted to anything else if
• Jacob Carlborg (4/7) Feb 23 2013 I've tried that, it didn't boot properly.
• Jacob Carlborg (4/15) Feb 24 2013 It was just an idea. I have seen other projects using this.

Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:

I was thinking if it would be a good idea to setup a virtual machine 
with a development environment for D. The virtual machine would contain 
everything needed to start development using D and to start contributing 
to D.

Vagrant could be an alternative for doing this.

http://www.vagrantup.com/

What do you think.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

Marco Leise <Marco.Leise gmx.de> writes:

Am Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:02:01 +0100
schrieb Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com>:

 I was thinking if it would be a good idea to setup a virtual machine 
 with a development environment for D. The virtual machine would contain 
 everything needed to start development using D and to start contributing 
 to D.
 
 Vagrant could be an alternative for doing this.
 
 http://www.vagrantup.com/
 
 What do you think.

I think contributing to D requires more than a VM image
download and a good old Wiki page gets the job done as well.
When you dived in that far you probably have a native
installation.
It's something different to have additional VMs to test code
on Linux, Windows and MacOS X without rebooting. But obviously
you cannot offer downloads of Windows and MacOS X.

What do you think is missing for a beginner when they open up
dlang.org and download DMD for their platform? Probably a curl
installation on Windows? A GUI toolkit? Obvious links to the
News Group or Wiki?

-- 
Marco

Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> writes:

On 2/22/13, Marco Leise <Marco.Leise gmx.de> wrote:
 But obviously you cannot offer downloads of Windows.

There's this: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=11575

But this is a VirtualPC image. Perhaps it can be converted to a
virtualbox machine though.

1100110 <0b1100110 gmail.com> writes:

On 02/22/2013 01:10 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
 On 2/22/13, Marco Leise<Marco.Leise gmx.de>  wrote:
 But obviously you cannot offer downloads of Windows.

 There's this: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=11575

 But this is a VirtualPC image. Perhaps it can be converted to a
 virtualbox machine though.

What I've learned is that anything can be converted to anything else if 
you really *really* want it to.

Qemu was good at this last I checked.

Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:

On 2013-02-22 20:10, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:

 There's this: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=11575

 But this is a VirtualPC image. Perhaps it can be converted to a
 virtualbox machine though.

I've tried that, it didn't boot properly.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:

On 2013-02-22 19:13, Marco Leise wrote:

 I think contributing to D requires more than a VM image
 download and a good old Wiki page gets the job done as well.
 When you dived in that far you probably have a native
 installation.
 It's something different to have additional VMs to test code
 on Linux, Windows and MacOS X without rebooting. But obviously
 you cannot offer downloads of Windows and MacOS X.

 What do you think is missing for a beginner when they open up
 dlang.org and download DMD for their platform? Probably a curl
 installation on Windows? A GUI toolkit? Obvious links to the
 News Group or Wiki?

It was just an idea. I have seen other projects using this.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg