Would it be a blocker if you had to use a VM (VirtualBox or boot2docker) to be able to contribute to GWT (because build tools would only work on Linux or OS X) ? You'd still be able to use Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA to develop, outside the VM, but actually building the project to produce JAR files would require Linux (running in a VM).
On the other hand, all you'd have to do to get things working would be to download the image with everything preinstalled (and possibly call a script too bootstrap the dev environment), with no other requirement on your machine than having VirtualBox (or boot2docker; maybe Vagrant) Just to have an idea if we should rule out Pants as a build tool or not (Pants might support Windows in the future though). I'm thinking that maybe we should try to come up with Docker images and/or Vagrantfile anyway to make things easier for new contributors, whether they're using Windows, Linux or OS X. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Contributors" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/c37dcd9e-5530-45e7-9f6b-86fd736a6a94%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
