Great idea.....just setup a base VM....copy the virtual disks (one per language)....then setup each as needed
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 17:51 +0000, Dominic Watson wrote: > Just a thought: I bought the book and haven't yet started it. Something > encouraging my procrastination is the horrid thought of having various > language server services setup on my machine with noob configurations (me > being the noob). It struck me that using some sort of Linux VM for learning > would be beneficial (perhaps a separate clean VM per language), boot up the > VM, get the language configs in a mess and not worry about it, just scrap > the VM and start over. > > Perhaps that's me being a little Lady Macbeth like though :p > > On 13 January 2011 17:43, Sean Corfield <seancorfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > pect to have to spend time on Google with each language. Tate gives > > only brief notes on where to find the installers and you'll need to > > spend time on each language's site figuring out how to get it > > installed and running. For Io, I ended up having to build it from > > source from an older releases because the latest downloads simply > > didn't work for me on Mac OS X (they worked on Ubuntu tho'). You'll > > find most of the language sites are *nix-centric so you'll probably > > have an easier time on Mac / Linux than Windows - most open source > > language development has occurred on Linux. > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:340755 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
