Hello all, I wonder if anyone has notes prepared for what it takes to turn an OI (Hipster) basic installation from a fresh Live Media into a workstation to develop and compile the illumos-gate and userland software? And taking it a step further, if it would make sense to prepare compilation-ready LiveDVDs or VM images which already include all the needed compilers, headers and other packages, and perhaps the dedicated build zone.
On a side note, are any IDE's particularly popular to simplify the coding and debugging, or do people prefer simple editors like mcedit, vi, nano, and command-line gmake, gdb, mdb invokations? Just a bit ago I replied on the ZFS list to a BSD developer who would like to RTI his patches - but has nowhere to compile and test. And not being from Solaris/illumos community, it would likely be a barrier to require of him and other such newcomers to set everything up in order to compile and RTI properly. Instead, we could ideally point him to a VirtualBox image with the prepared compilation environment (perhaps complete with the checked-out source codes at the time of VM image preparation) and a short manual: login here, svn update there, cd here, apply your code patches, gmake, wait... test, publish a webrev. Does this sound feasible - to produce such environments while rolling out an updated ISO of Hipster for example? Thanks, //Jim Klimov _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
