[haiku-development] Re: VirtualBox Haiku Development Image
- From: clemens.zeidler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:23:25 +1300
> On 02/29/2012 09:39 PM, Ryan Leavengood wrote:
> > Another idea I have been thinking about to lower the barrier to
> > entry
> > into Haiku development is a VirtualBox VDI which is already set up
> > as
> > a Haiku development machine with a recent known to work revision,
> > the
> > necessary (and up-to-date) build tools, and an anonymous Git copy
> > of
> > the source (maybe not checked out to save space.) It could also
> > include tutorials and start up guides which show up on the first
> > run,
> > useful Desktop shortcuts, etc.
>
> You mean pretty much like the nightlies?
>
> While I like the basic idea, I'm not sure it really worth the effort.
> You probably don't want to lose all your work every time you update,
> so
> you will want to put the important stuff (like the sources) on a
> second
> drive image, anyway.
> What needs to be on there then? Who is to select the 'good'
> revisions?
>
> Bye,
> Axel.
>
haha, just had a similar problem discussion, someone here at the uni
wanted to try to develop on haiku in virtual box. Alex and I suggested
to have two images, one with the haiku OS and one with the source/data.
Maybe provide nightlies with the dev tools (if not already included)
and write a small tutorial how to include a second data image. We could
also provide this second image just with a script that download the
source and all missing parts like git and maybe even starts compiling
everything...
Will look into it, this could also be handy for a student project that
starts tomorrow :)
Regards,
Clemens
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