Willingness to support sprout on other *nix platforms?

[patcon]

Hey guys, long-time no-see :)

I'm interested in ubuntu in particular. I know @webcoyote was the last guy to show interest in this when the project was called pivotal_workstation. Not sure if he stuck with it.

Anyhow, the context is here: gratipay/gratipay.com#2072 (comment)

[webcoyote]

@webcoyote here; I have my own fork of
pivotal_workstationhttps://github.com/webcoyote/pivotal_workstationthat
I've maintained for my personal use when pivotal orphaned the project,
but I'm not making an effort to keep it up to date unless I need a new
version of something.

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Patrick Connolly
[email protected]:

Hey guys, long-time no-see :)

I'm interested in ubuntu in particular. I know @webcoyotehttps://github.com/webcoyotewas the last guy to show interest in this when the project was called
pivotal_workstation. Not sure if he stuck with it.

Anyhow, the context is here: gratipay/gratipay.com#2072 (comment)gratipay/gratipay.com#2072 (comment)

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com//issues/237
.

[patcon]

Good to know. Thanks @webcoyote

[hiremaga]

Ubuntu support is not a goal for Sprout at this time.

The short version is there are higher priorities like getting off pivotal_workstation completely and transition as much of sprout-osx-apps over to sprout-homebrew as possible.

I'd also like to see us extract the recipes that remain into more focused cookbooks (e.g. sprout-osx-rubymine), ideally with tests of some sort (sprout-homebrew makes a start) and once this is done, make a per-cookbook decision about support for multiple platforms (e.g. doesn't make sense for sprout-homebrew but might for sprout-osx-rubymine).

Unfortunately, the existing cookbooks are pretty monolithic and the platform specific switches that were present in some recipes but not the rest made Sprout harder to maintain. So we've taken most of these switches out and made it explicit that OSX is the only supported platform.

Also, to be transparent, there aren't many non-OSX workstations at Pivotal and Sprout's priorities are primarily driven by what is in use here at Pivotal. It's likely you'll see more interest in support for other platforms when this changes and Pivots start using non-OSX workstations - there's a small chance this might happen first on Cloud Foundry.

This said, it's entirely possible to make your own sprout-wrap style repo using soloist and librarian-chef using your own or community cookbooks. I've seen this work well for some folks.

[patcon]

Oh hey, I never said thanks for the very thoughtful response @hiremaga! I really appreciate the context.

And oh hey, I'll be in SF for a few months starting this Friday. I might look you up :) Let me know if you're interested in the open company summit and the [crypto]coin summit coming up in the next week