On 13.4.2010 19:32, Johan Corveleyn wrote:
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Julian Foad<julian.f...@wandisco.com> wrote:
Bolstridge, Andrew wrote:
To get new developers, I think the first thing that needs to be done
is to make entry easier. That means providing a setup ready-to-debug
for people. The initial hurdle on any software project is getting set
up (I find) so if you could release a VM image with everything set, or
a visual studio project with the code and dependencies in there ready
for someone to press 'compile', then you've made a massive headway to
helping new devs get going. A pre-built Windows solution would be the
ideal - if anyone has one already... let us know :) The documentation
could be better (as always :) ), but getting the code running in a
debugger is probably documentation enough, especially for a new
developer who wants to modify things.
That's a very good idea. I wonder if any of our Windows gurus can come
up with a practical way to make a ready-to-build package.
Yes, that's probably one of the best investments right now to lower
the bar for new developers (it's also one of the things I mentioned in
the other thread reacting to the vision/roadmap, but that thread seems
to have been discarded ... oh well, no problem ...).
Getting the build up and running on Windows (and getting it to run
from the debugger of Visual C Express 2008) was a huge waste of
time...
Also, don't forget to make it easy to setup an environment to run the
tests (I haven't focused on running the tests on my setup yet, but I
expect that I will lose a lot of time with that again ...).
Here's just a thought on how to achieve this - I don't know if it is
doable because of the licensing, but - how about creating a Vmware (or
some other VM) image that has everything already set up. This way a
working Windows environment would be just a download away. I just don't
know if updating SVN and dependencies to the latest build would be
simple or hard...
Br, Miha
