Or maybe, a script for installing Cloud9 IDE could be provided.
It's kinda a bare copy-paste of the function already present in 
'target/chroot' scripts with in addition an 'apt-get install nodejs 
other-dependencies'

Il giorno martedì 15 luglio 2014 21:02:21 UTC+2, William Hermans ha scritto:
>
> Besides, it would be very simple for someone who needed such an image to 
> create one.
>
> 1) Starting with the console image you install all the necessary packages 
> for your usecase.
> 2) gzip the whole rootfs
> 3) extract where needed, when you want to revert / duplicate.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 11:51 AM, William Hermans <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Giovanni,
>>
>> No, it uses a substantial amount of disk space. Over 200M last time I 
>> looked. Not everyone will need or want to use it.  Also the dependencies( 
>> Nodejs, NPM, etc ) will use a fair amount of space as well.
>>
>> I did some testing on my own before, and I had a very small install for 
>> what I had installed. Somewhere around 91M total size. After installing 
>> Nodejs with NPM, and socket.io, I'm up to 191M. Then once I installed 
>> cloud9, I was up to around 425M total disk space. 
>>
>> Personally, I dont need cloud9. I write code on my Windows workstation 
>> using sublime text 2. Where I *could* also cross compile for the BBB using 
>> Linaro's Windows toolchain binaries. However I do not. I cross compile on 
>> Debian x86, or I compile natively on the BBB when needed.
>>
>> Then there are other use cases . . . 
>>
>> Anyway, I think there is a neatness factor to cloud9. It is kind of cool 
>> / neat, and would be fun to toy around with. But at the end of the day it 
>> is something that is not needed, with steep diskspace costs.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Giovanni Santini <
>> [email protected] <javascript:>> wrote:
>>
>>> Perfect!
>>> Just to know, shouldn't Cloud9 IDE included by default even on a console 
>>> build?
>>> So people won't have X and lots of unused stuff but they'll have a 
>>> really handy IDE to develop.
>>> At least, this should be used by default in stable console build...
>>> This is my idea, but I wanted to discuss it :)
>>>
>>> Il giorno martedì 15 luglio 2014 18:58:22 UTC+2, RobertCNelson ha 
>>> scritto:
>>>>
>>>> Sure.. I've tried to separate those sections by features.. 
>>>>
>>>> Since you want Cloud9, you'll also have to enable the 
>>>> debian.beagleboard.org repo so you can grab nodejs-legacy 
>>>> https://github.com/RobertCNelson/omap-image-
>>>> builder/blob/master/configs/bb.org-debian-stable.conf#L41 
>>>>
>>>> Regards, 
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Robert Nelson 
>>>> http://www.rcn-ee.com/ 
>>>>
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