Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad
by lukeschlather on Thursday April 16, 2015 @07:47PM
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I really hate using WinSCP for file transfer between Windows and the guest OS. If Windows shipped with a native sshfs-alike, I'd probably be ok, but I really prefer native Ubuntu development.
Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad
by dade_ on Thursday April 16, 2015 @08:48PM
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https://chocolatey.org/
Choco install git.install /GitAndUnixToolsOnPath Choco upgrade git.install
It is a beautiful world with and my slashes work both ways!
Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad
by zmmmmm on Thursday April 16, 2015 @08:10PM
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There are lots of alternative solutions to share file systems between a VM and host ... is that all you're trying to solve? VirtualBox has it built in.
Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad
by lukeschlather on Thursday April 16, 2015 @08:19PM
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No, I'm also trying to share between my laptop and a remote server. (actually, I very rarely use VMs hosted locally)
Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad
by r00fus on Thursday April 16, 2015 @10:44PM
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I think you confused everyone with your terminology in your parent comment - "guest OS" is VM speak.
Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad
by mreiland on Thursday April 16, 2015 @10:10PM
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I use a samba share, it works a treat and in the 3-4 years I've been running it I've never had much maintenance on it outside of the occasional update to the OS.
Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad
by lloeki on Friday April 17, 2015 @05:21AM
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Using (boot2)docker/docker-machine+virtualbox and mapping a volume to the host OS (which is trivial) might be viable.
I use it on OS X to do linux-only stuff (such as loop-mounting an ext4 image).
Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad
by jerf on Thursday April 16, 2015 @08:11PM
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I don't have a click&go solution because I don't have this problem, but you could certainly serve a Samba share out of the guest OS or something.
Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad
by StavrosK on Thursday April 16, 2015 @08:13PM
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What's wrong with VirtualBox shared folders? Also, Windows-native sshfs-alike is SMB.
Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad
by thom on Friday April 17, 2015 @05:15AM
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You can map drives from a client over Remote Desktop if that's at all helpful.
I use cygwin for ssh/scp, even if I don't need cygwin for anything else
Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad
by tomc1985 on Thursday April 16, 2015 @08:31PM
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Set up samba? (thats how I work)
What about NFS?
Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad
by WorldWideWayne on Friday April 17, 2015 @12:36AM
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I run Fedora 21 w/ full screen Gnome 3 in VirtualBox, so I can use Linux desktop tools and no SCP is needed.
The touch screen even works with Gnome. Even rdp remoting into my Surface from my desktop to use the Linux guest has also been the best performing Windows to Linux remote control that I've used for the amount of setup time. On a gigabit network, it's really nice.
Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad
by mooreds on Thursday April 16, 2015 @07:36PM
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Absolutely!
I usually buy windows machines because of price/performance, and, to be honest, because I know how to make windows work for me and don't want to learn mac idioms.
However, the first thing I do is install git for windows, which gives me bash to navigate the filesystem, and then vagrant/virtualbox/ubuntu for development.
Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad
by eosrei on Thursday April 16, 2015 @09:09PM
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I highly recommend http://babun.github.io/ for Windows based development. It's a well configured cygwin install with many standard addons included. Helps me keep my sanity while switching between Linux, Windows and OSX.
Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad
by jdmichal on Thursday April 16, 2015 @08:10PM
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Have you given PowerShell a try? If so, how did you feel about it compared to using bash on Windows?
Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad
by sz4kerto on Friday April 17, 2015 @04:00AM
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I don't think it is really possible to 'give Powershell a try'. PS is extremely powerful, but there's a lot to learn. It is not a drop-in replacement for bash at all because it's so different.
Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad
by gamesbrainiac on Thursday April 16, 2015 @07:35PM
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Thats exactly what I tend to do on a Windows machine, and I don't miss linux at all. Feels like having a VPS (which it really is) ready at all times with awesome bandwidth.
Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad
by smrtinsert on Thursday April 16, 2015 @11:25PM
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That being said, I just returned a surface pro 3 for a tablet. The display is nice, the feel is great, but the omg the resolution and font issues. Forget it, you consistently feel how much you have to deal with the OS itself to get it out of your way. Until tablet pcs are ready I still have a desktop win box and a mac mini and my tablet.
I'm also spoiled by the App Store concept. Windows needs to force it on developers. One tap installs on Android and great dependency tools like homebrew or Leiningen have made me never want to download stuff manually ever again.
Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad
by tonyedgecombe on Friday April 17, 2015 @03:49AM
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The day Microsoft forces the app store on me is the day I stop developing for Windows.
If you want your Unix toolchains for development, you could still have them. The Surface Pro is powerful enough to run Linux in Vagrant or another virtualization engine. So you could just run a virtual dev environment. Virtual environments are sometimes better anyway, since you can replicate your operational infrastructure.
Windows 10 is looking good. If it gets really, really good they might close the gap with Apple for professional users. Their glastnost/perestroika trend of opening up and embracing the dev community isn't hurting their reputation either. I really think Satya Nadella is turning the company around.