On Mar 7, 2011, at 7:48 PM, Jesse Lackey wrote:

> I was reading how the development environment of some
> opensource project (debian?  ubuntu?) was delivered as ... an entire
> virtual machine "image", to run in a VM "player".
>
> Neato.

Yeah, as long as the VM Player in question continues to work...

> Made me think that would be a good way to preserve the
> State of Things at important moments of time

Not a bad idea.  I was thinking from the previous part of this =20
discussion that a VM would make a good test environment for checking =20
that your package of SCV'ed stuff actually was able to compile...

It could use some tool development to do this repackaging into a VM.  =20
Right now I think it implies that you actually DO the development =20
within a VM as well, and I'm not ready to do that. (or to impose my =20
favorite editor, web browser, and etc on the disk space requirements...)

BillW

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