William "Chops" Westfield wrote:

> On Mar 7, 2011, at 7:48 PM, Jesse Lackey wrote:
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>> 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".=20
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> Yeah, as long as the VM Player in question continues to work...
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>> Made me think that would be a good way to preserve the State of
>> Things at important moments of time
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> Not a bad idea.  I was thinking from the previous part of this
> discussion that a VM would make a good test environment for checking
> that your package of SCV'ed stuff actually was able to compile...=20
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> It could use some tool development to do this repackaging into a VM.
> Right now I think it implies that you actually DO the development
> within a VM as well, and I'm not ready to do that. (or to impose my
> favorite editor, web browser, and etc on the disk space
> requirements...)

Why do you think so? I'm switching between both shared and private-use
VMs and native installations all the time, using the same sources and
tools.=20

Gerhard
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