Re: status update

[Aaron Turner <aturner@linuxkb.org>]

On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Micah K Yoder wrote:

> Aaron Turner wrote:
> 
> > I'm interested in hearing from everyone if it would be worthwhile for me
> > to spend 10 hours or so creating a "developer box in a box" tarball.
> > Basically you download a 30MB tarball (or so), and run ./install.sh and 10
> > minutes later you've got a fully functional development system.  The other
> > two options are:
> 
> That would be pretty cool, if anyone else wants it.  Don't do it for me
> alone.
> 
> > 1) Code at home, but to test your code you have to commit/webupdate.
> 
> That's kind of how I've been doing it and planning on continuing doing
> it.  It works... but is a tad bit slower than a dedicated box at home.

Personally it drives me nuts.  Also for people like me who are developing
not a notebook, it kinda defeats the purpose.
 
> > 2) Download 30MB's of source from various websites, and then follow a
> > lengthy document which tells you how to compile and install everything.
> 
> That's a pain...  :-)
> 
> Of course, a prebuilt tarball would probably conflict with something.  I
> already run Apache on port 80 doing other things... and Zope on port
> 8080... :-)

Good point.  Port 81 anyone?

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