Peter Loron wrote:

> On 03/11/2011 05:58 AM, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
>> William "Chops" Westfield wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
> Making the jump to using VMs is not always easy either conceptually or
> resource-wise. If your computers are fairly recent and have a lot of
> disk and RAM, then spinning up VMs for the various environments you
> want to work in is a very nice way to manage things. If you don't
> have the hardware, then it becomes problematic to get good
> performance from them.=20

That's true, but I'm not sure whether this is what Bill meant. I just
didn't understand his comment.

OTOH, the necessary upgrades are in the same area with multiple big
screens and other productivity enhancers... if you want your programmers
to be productive, give them the tools.

Gerhard
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