On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 09:12 -0500, Tong Li wrote: > There are also elements which are not available on windows. I went down the > same path as my dev env are on windows, had quite few days digging and > pounding my fists against the desk and eventually switched to Ubuntu which > is a lot simpler. Unless we are serious about supporting windows and put > some efforts including careful selecting dependent Ruby gems, we will have > people continue wanting run or develop on windows and having issues. Just > my 2 cents. Thanks.
I am all for making it possible to run and hack Deltacloud on Windows - I simply do not have a single Windows machine available where I could try that myself. But I am more than happy to accept patches to that end. Do you still have any notes about what issues you ran into with your Windows setup ? At this point, it would take some enterprising soul to slog to the issues one-by-one and either document workarounds or fix them. As for the thin issue that the OP had: that's a design issue with rubygems, in that it doesn't distinguish between source and binary packages (with a sane package mgr, you install binary packages, so that you do not need a whole build env just to install) I believe that the best 'fix' for the thin issue is to carefully document setup under Windows. David
