On 03/19/2012 09:14 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
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On 3/19/2012 4:25 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
There are lots of options here. As mentioned, virtualbox should be a good option, and you can probably use something like wubi to create an Ubuntu desktop running along side Windows.
Thanks to all for the advice. I have some learning to do.
I actually have VirtualBox installed and for the sprint I had a Vagrant VM set up running the basic http://files.vagrantup.com/lucid32.box. I had set up a virtualenv on this box with Sphinx installed for the Sphinx tutorial at PyCon, and this worked really well.
When I got to the Mailman sprint, I tried to install MM 3 on this Vagrant VM, and I ran into some error with buildout trying to compile some package and failing with a missing Python.h file.
I ran 'sudo apt-get install python-dev' on the VM which I thought would fix it, and the install seemed to run OK, but I still had no Python.h.
At that point, I gave up and went to a virtualenv on my production server.
At this point, I don't know whether the best approach is look for a more complete development box for Vagrant or figure out how to provision the basic Vagrant box with what I need or forget Vagrant and install directly in VirtualBox or go with a dual-boot.
Anyway, it's going to be interesting to figure this out.
Since I was curious to see I created a vagrant VM with lucid and I only needed to install the following:
To install (Lucid32):
- python
- python-dev
- bzr
- python-setuptools
- gccTo make everything work and be able to run buildout and bin/test in mailman bzr version. So now I was thinking to transform this manual steps in a Vagrantfile, and we could use this to ship for people that want to try, other things to do:
Optional packages:
- Gnome / XFCE / Other
- vim
To check/set:
- launchpad login, possibly passing the authentication and the SSH
key somehow to the vagrant file
- dimension of the VM to make sure it's not too smallPS. I get 6 failures running the tests though, as File "/home/vagrant/mailman/src/mailman/model/docs/users.rst", line 172, in users.rst Failed example: user_2.preferred_address = anne Differences (ndiff with -expected +actual): Traceback (most recent call last): - ... - UnverifiedAddressError: Anne Person <anne@example.com> + File "/usr/lib/python2.6/doctest.py", line 1248, in __run + compileflags, 1) in test.globs + File "<doctest users.rst[41]>", line 1, in <module> + user_2.preferred_address = anne + File "/home/vagrant/mailman/src/mailman/model/user.py", line 112, in preferred_address + raise UnverifiedAddressError(address) + UnverifiedAddressError: <unprintable UnverifiedAddressError object>