WANTED! Installfest and Example Testers

[broesamle]

Code examples that will be used in workshops (for beginners) should have been tested!

Your experiences testing the instructuins/examples will help establish a stable learning environment in the workshops:

• setup your machine
• beginners
• url shortener URL shortener workshop #14
• Text adventure
• mondrian pattern Mondrian-pattern painter workshop #15

Before you start, please get in contact via a post/issue so that the developers can coordinate effort and avoid testing of premature work!

It does not matter, which system you are workin on:

• Windows
• mac OS
• linux
  • debian-based
  • Ubuntu (sometimes differs from other Linuxes regarding developer packages)
    . . .

[booyaa]

I'll ask my meetup group to test setup your machine and url shortener #14. The latter we plan on iterating.

[milibopp]

So the beginners stuff on Windows requires gcc.exe. That is a somewhat tricky requirement for beginners.

[milibopp]

And the URL shortener setup does not work as is on any platform. There is a lifetime bug that needs fixing.

[broesamle]

Yes, I am aware of this .. on the long run there will (hopefully) be a more dependency-lightweight rust graphics environment available.

In the time availabke I could not work around this.

I will try to write up a quick setup guide for MSYS+gcc (which woked well for me) as soon I am done with the workshop materials.
For the workshop on sunday we may have to support some windows people in person.

[broesamle]

thanks for testing, in any case!

[milibopp]

Yes, I have the impression that supporting in person is our only option at this point. And it's going to be fine ;)

[broesamle]

I thought about setting up a VM so that win users could just install virtual box and copy the image. 

avoids 64/32 bit pitfalls on windows which cost me some time abd are tricky to figure out under time pressure

any suggestions for a lightweight linux with a window maker that does not need gpu access are welcome...

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Von: Eduard Bopp [email protected]
Datum: 16.09.2016 22:55 (GMT+01:00)
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Cc: "Martin Br:osamle" [email protected],Author [email protected]
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Yes, I have the impression that supporting in person is our only option at this point. And it's going to be fine ;)

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[bruceadams]

A potential problem with a VM approach is that a VM needs a pretty hefty machine to run well. Our students might have old, slow machines.

[loganmzz]

Maybe building a bootable image that can be used as a bootable device (USB key) or as VM can help. I think having explanation for full installation from scratch is still mandatory.

And gcc requirements is not true as you can install the MS-based toolchain. It only requires administrative rights such as VM supervisor installation. This last one is much hard to handle that just installing MSYS with gcc or MS SDK.

Moreover for Windows installation instruction, rustup isn't mention but works perfectly !

Note 1: links into first issue message are broken after b5ad4fc

Note 2: Atom is the only mentionned tool but european have lot of problem with it due to some keyboard management issue. There was supposed to be fixed but some users still encounter some problems. From my personal experience, Atom is (strangely) much more slower than VS code.