Making open source projects accessible with Vagrant

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That's a good idea. Getting an unknown open source project to build can sometimes be a lot of work. Especially if it depends on particular versions of tools and libraries that may conflict with the ones other projects require.

Perhaps one day providing the develop environment's definition in the form of a Vagrant VM (or, probably better, a Dockerfile) will be as common sense as providing README and LICENSE files.

> Perhaps one day providing the develop environment's definition in the form of a Vagrant VM (or, probably better, a Dockerfile) will be as common sense as providing README and LICENSE files.

I would hope this becomes a trend. I was very happy when Discourse first went open source and included a Vagrantfile for development in their git repo, made getting up and running much easier (especially since I'm running on windows a majority of the time and certain libraries don't always play nice).

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