How big is the VM image?

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Thomas Broyer <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> 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.
>
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