On 03/17/2012 11:43 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Also, I need to figure out a better development platform for Windows
boxes. I had a perfect opportunity to scrap Windows all together when
I had to recover from a hard drive crash on my main development box
last year, but the dice fell the wrong way on that one.
Anyway, Cygwin is not going to cut it for MM 3. At the sprint, I tried
installing MM 3 in a vagrant VM, but there was too much missing (e.g.,
no Python.h) and even 'apt-get install python-dev' didn't fix that. I
ended up working remotely inside a virtualenv on my production server.
That actually seems to work OK, but I'm afraid that as I get deeper
into it, there will be things I need to do that I won't want to do on
my production box.
Anyway, if anyone has any suggestions for me besides the obvious "bite
the bullet now and scrap Windows - it will only be worse later", I'm
interested. I suppose I could always dual-boot Windows and some Linux
side by side.
Maybe I can organize a sprint at the next PyCon - Migrating to Linux
and killing Windows one PC at a time.
I would definitively suggest to get rid of Windows, but if you don't
want or can't
do the big step there is no reason to do a dual-boot, a just create a
Linux virtual
machine and you're done :)
Unless you don't have much RAM is the best solution, and there are even
pre-made
virtual machines here:
http://virtualboximages.com/
so it doesn't really take long to set up something working :)
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