This sounds a lot like what I have in mind. Have you tried doing this yet? Grant Rettke writes:
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 7:07 PM, John Kitchin <jkitc...@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: >> Thanks for all the notes! It looks like a not too trivial exercise that >> might have to be a summer project for me. > > For the past year, I've been curious about how to make my Emacs > environment available to me and anyone else, easily. Goal is to make > working on a Linux, Windows, or OSX GUI a one-click setup. For me, > Vagrant is the obvious solution here. Vagrant and Packer, > specifically. > > The benefit of using Packer to build a Vagrant image is that the user > doesn't have to wait for the download and installation of big stuff > like TeXLive. That get's me curious if we (all Emacs/Org users) might > want to build a base-image that includes all the stuff out there. > Might make it easy for users to try out lots of different configs > without having to deal with all of the software requirements. While > that isn't a "big deal", it is just easier for them so they can focus > on doing stuff with Org. -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu
