Re: [frogs] ready to (re)start

[Graham Percival <graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James, in addition to working on the \layout { \context {
standardization issue, could you add some info about Trevor's
experience to the CG?

Cheers,
- Graham


On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 09:17:16AM -0000, Trevor Daniels wrote:
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> Graham Percival wrote Thursday, January 28, 2010 1:47 AM
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>> Are you sure you don't want to try lilybuntu?  Download it,
>> install and download the virtualization client, and boom, you're
>> done.  (or so I hear from our developers on windows; I haven't
>> tried it yet)
>
> Well, it wasn't -quite- as easy as that, but it
> did seem easier than the problems Kieren's experiencing.
> At least all the dependencies were satisfied out of the
> box, so make, make doc and make test-baseline just
> worked (at least on a cleaned git).
>
> There is some learning to be done, not so much with
> ubuntu, more with VirtualBox.  To work smoothly you need to add Guest 
> Additions, and the process for doing
> this and then getting it to work is still rather
> mysterious to me.  By poking it in various places it
> eventually does the right thing, but I haven't worked
> out a clear recipe.
>
> The second big problem was the recommended virtual
> disk size is too small to hold the full git with all
> compiled docs and regtests.  I was faced with having
> to run make check or make doc from a clean directory
> every time I needed to switch from one to the other.
> This took five hours plus and killed any momentum.
> And there is no easy way to increase the disk size.
> Eventually I made a new VM with a larger disk (10GB
> is enough), and reinstalled everything.
>
> There are other niggles, but these are not so important.
> I still haven't managed to share disks across the two
> systems, but find I don't really need to.  My 2Gb
> RAM was a little too small, but I upped it to 3Gb and
> now its fine.  
>
> All this is under Windows Vista.  I've no idea what
> the situation would be on a Mac.
>
> Trevor
>

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