I forget who mentioned this to me, but I think it's a great idea. Things like VirtualBox and VMWare are pretty easy to install and set up these days. It wouldn't be hard for someone to create a VM image of a Linux system with a complete GHC development environment set up and ready to go. This would have a lot of benefits: * Easy to buy into: just install VirtualBox (or whatever), download the image, register it and away you go. * Would make the barrier to entry much lower for someone who wants to make a small change, e.g. to the docs, or a library. validate and 'darcs send' would Just Work. * Would serve as an example of best-practice in setting up a GHC development environment. The hard part might be optimising the install so that we don't end up with an enormous image file. We'd probably need to find a suitably minimal Linux install, or start from an existing minimal Linux VM image. Anyone feeling keen? Cheers, Simon