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#1 2012-10-14 09:27:49

gaekwad
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From: People's Republic of Cornwall
Registered: 2005-11-19
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[contrib] RFC: downloadable Textpattern virtual machine & TXP-hosted test drive

I was thinking about the barriers to entry for prospective users of Textpattern. It dawned on me that a straightforward way to have people try Textpattern in a risk-free way, besides the opensourceCMS (which is still on v4.4.1, by the way), might be to have a pre-built, streamlined (small), Linux virtual machine download that can just be snagged and run. Perhaps make it available for Virtualbox, VMWare, Parallels, etc. Maybe even as a torrent to spread the download resources.

Alternatively, having the test drive situated on a Textpattern server instead of opensourceCMS would provide both useful diagnostics as to its use, and also remove the risk of having an old (and in this case a known insecure) version as the first thing prospective users see.

Thanks for reading. I’d love to hear your comments.

Edit: yay! I got thêta status!

Last edited by gaekwad (2012-10-14 10:00:34)

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#2 2012-10-14 16:10:59

hakjoon
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From: Arlington, VA
Registered: 2004-07-29
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Re: [contrib] RFC: downloadable Textpattern virtual machine & TXP-hosted test drive

I use vagrant for my local development and was thinking of making my Textpattern recipes available. It’s kind of rough atm but it mostly works.


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#3 2012-10-14 18:02:51

gaekwad
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From: People's Republic of Cornwall
Registered: 2005-11-19
Posts: 4,241
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Re: [contrib] RFC: downloadable Textpattern virtual machine & TXP-hosted test drive

hakjoon wrote:

I use vagrant for my local development and was thinking of making my Textpattern recipes available. It’s kind of rough atm but it mostly works.

Looks interesting – and another pro-point for VirtualBox, too.

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