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.

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/Jacob Carlborg

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?

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Marco

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.

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.

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.

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/Jacob Carlborg

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.

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/Jacob Carlborg