On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:57, Christopher Sean Morrison <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 9, 2012, at 12:11 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > >> Yes--looking for what you envision. > > It's really up to your discretion but the goal I originally had in mind was > simple -- an image > to help devs immediately start writing and debugging code without our > involvement. > The idea was inspired during GCI
GCI (I know you don't mean Ground-Controlled Intercept)? > where the interest is brief, fleeting, and from high-school students. ... > I think that just raises questions about what all those other modules are, > and most are irrelevant to new devs. Okay, agree. >> In addition to default vi and gedit have already included editors: >> xemacs and jEdit. > Can we get emacs with X11 support instead of xemacs? Subtle, > but they have different function sets. The .emacs config file at > http://brlcad.org/wiki/Emacs would be great to have already in place too along > with the cmake-mode. Will do. >> I am thinking of including an environment like the Eclipse C/C++ IDE > If you do include one, it might help to do the initial set up so it's got a > project already pointing to our sources with build output going to the build > dir. > That said, I'd probably leave it out for a first cut. Definitely easier! It would be good to get comments from young devs about what they feel is missing after they see it. > So I keep going back on forth on the build directory. > I think there's some value to have cmake already run with > BRLCAD_BUILD_LIBS=ON and installed into /usr/brlcad, > but then run make clean so the object files are gone. Will do. > Other than that, nothing else comes to mind. Can't wait to try it out! I'll load a draft VM with the bones we've discussed later today for comment. Docs and such will be later. Cheers! -Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
