Maybe it's finally time to drop the Vagrant code?
On Sat, 24 Jun 2017 at 08:00, Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net> wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 4:27 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > As the subject says - there have been no updates recently, so is it > > still useful? > > I don't know. > > This was one of the many things I tried to see if I could grow a > community here. My original thought was to structure whimsy as a > number of small tools and encourage people to start with only what > they needed to run that one tool. If I remember correctly, Brett has > made use of the Vagrantfile in the board agenda directory. > > Since then, more completely documenting how to install the entire > whimsy tree locally on Mac OS/X (as opposed to in a Virtual machine) > has proven more successful in getting first Craig, then Shane, and now > John set up. > > My inclination is that the whimsy/vagrant can indeed be removed (it > was intended to help set up the secretary/workbench tool, but that > tool has since been rewritten); but I'd like to keep the vagrant and > docker setup in the board agenda tool a bit longer. > > Note that I don't expect that many of the tools will run well natively > on Windows, and I don't expect that any of the existing active > developers on the Whimsy PMC are set up to help with such an effort (I > certainly am not). Docker and/or Vagrant instructions may become > important if there are any individuals who develop on Microsoft > Windows who are interested in contributing. > > - Sam Ruby
