James Little @ NZfusion.com

I consider the ’setup’ of new development environments on projects to be one of the most useless activities faced by new projects… Personally I believe that vmWare is a practical and robust solution. Simply show up - get a new vm image and start work. Easy.

The alternative is to build and maintain installer applications that manage all the software requirements of the project… and that would be painful.

Documentation should go hand-in-hand with the VM image… but its purpose is just to document the software and the reasons for inclusion - instead of attempting to provide a mechanism hopeful developers/testers/users can use to get acquainted with a complex system.

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