I forget who mentioned this to me, but I think it's a great idea.
Things like VirtualBox and VMWare are pretty easy to install and set up
these days. It wouldn't be hard for someone to create a VM image of a
Linux system with a complete GHC development environment set up and
ready to go.
This would have a lot of benefits:
* Easy to buy into: just install VirtualBox (or whatever), download
the image, register it and away you go.
* Would make the barrier to entry much lower for someone who wants
to make a small change, e.g. to the docs, or a library. validate
and 'darcs send' would Just Work.
* Would serve as an example of best-practice in setting up a GHC
development environment.
The hard part might be optimising the install so that we don't end up
with an enormous image file. We'd probably need to find a suitably
minimal Linux install, or start from an existing minimal Linux VM image.
Anyone feeling keen?
Cheers,
Simon
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