Is this worth doing for PETSc?

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Yes! Vagrant is the new answer to, "How do I stall this on Windows?"
It really is as simple as typing vagrant up and then vagrant ssh.

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Jack Poulson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Elemental Developers,
>
> I have finally taken the time to learn how to use Vagrant
> [http://vagrantup.com] and have committed Vagrantfiles for developing
> Elemental in (headless) 32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu 13.10:
> https://github.com/elemental/Elemental/commit/c809bdc9a240f6bdd5403f7c5e278d75415af66d
>
> For those of you that aren't familiar with Vagrant, it is a means of
> easily maintaining development environments for virtual machines. Once
> Vagrant is installed, a full development environment for Elemental can
> be started by simply typing 'vagrant up'.
>
> I hope to add desktop versions, saucy32-desktop and saucy64-desktop,
> soon so that a dev environment including Qt5 support can easily be
> loaded. This would be the ideal setting for a quickstart tutorial. (Any
> takers on helping write such a tutorial? It would obviously be one of
> the most public-facing pieces of the project.) The complication is that
> vagrant boxes need to be manually created (I'm in the process of
> creating one for saucy32-desktop).
>
> Jack

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