[Mailman-Developers] VM for Mailman development

[Mark Sapiro]

On 3/19/2012 4:02 PM, Terri Oda wrote:
> 
> Incidentally, how much interest would there be in having a
> Mailman-developer VM (say, for VirtualBox) around and easy to download?
>  Some modern distro, appropriate dev tools, and a checkout of moderately
> recent code, maybe even ready to run with instructions on the desktop or
> something?  It seems like it might be a nice thing to hand out to
> prospective GSoC students as well as Mark. ;)


I think it would be great. I'm not sure how fast I will progress with
this, but I may be the one to make it. If it were available right now, I
would certainly use it.

I'm currently thinking about VirtualBox vs. dual boot. I'm used to
working with Cygwin command windows on my Windows desktop. There are
various issues with Cygwin, both itself and WRT MM 3, so I need to move
away from that. VirtualBox would allow me to continue to work in a
hybrid environment with some Windows applications and some Unix like
applications running together, but dual boot might avoid potential
hardware interface issues and would motivate me to move completely away
from Windows (although I would probably still need access to Windows to
diagnose user problems with the web site I admin).

Of course, I could always do both. The two machines I would do this on
both have two 200GB+ hard drives with lots of available space so disc is
not a problem. My travel computer has 8GB of ram and a dual-core 64 bit
CPU, so that's plenty I'm sure. My main, at home computer is over 10
years old and has only 2GB of ram and a Pentium 4 CPU, but I think even
it would be OK.

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