Developing on both Windows & Linux machines simultaneously

Sorry for the bad title (couldn't think of a better way to describe it)

I have a windows machine which I do development on. However, I have a new project which needs to interact with a linux system (executing linux commands etc.).

So, obviously I can't do development on my windows machine..and I don't wish to code on the dev machine, svn commit and then svn update it on the linux machine.

Is there a way where any changes I make on my dev machine will be quickly mirrored to the linux machine? SVN is not a very quick alternative and of course some changes will be very minor.

Any ideas? A network share I guess....but that's not very pretty (bit slow too).

As fellow developers I would like to know if you've been in a similar situation and how you've resolved it.

On a furthernote, I can't just install Ubuntu as my development machine and mirror the commands, applications etc. from the linux machine because it's a cluster 'master' machine and so therefore it has quite a special configuration.

Thanks guys!

EDIT: I've also thought about having web services on the linux machine and then just calling them from code thus seperating platform development dependency. What do you think about that too? thanks

Although that's a good idea, it's not possible. This master linux system has lots of cluster and bespoke tools, tools which cannot be installed through cygwin etc. alas.

Jamie 2010-05-26 13:02:37

Jamie, So you have to develop on that machine remotely.

Sepehr Lajevardi 2010-05-26 13:04:04

Another solution possible is to write a script which deploys your app throug ssh on the linux system.

Dimitri 2010-05-26 13:05:21

I could do this too - but the project will also be using ExtJs (which is about 25mb in size (or something ridiculous). Uploading that every time would be slow. Thanks for the suggestions! I appreciate them :-)

Jamie 2010-05-26 13:10:33

Another solution you can try Write a script that commit your changes in your svn and connects you in your linux system. YOu will have to do svn update ;)

Dimitri 2010-05-26 13:17:28

You could use rsync over ssh to only copy deltas each time

Kieron 2010-05-26 14:03:04

Is there any downfalls to use WebDAV instead?

Sepehr Lajevardi 2010-05-26 13:28:16

Yeah, WebDAV's another similar possibility, if you don't mind your user authentication stuff being done through the web server, which can be a bit of a rigmarole.

bobince 2010-05-26 14:07:51

This is the path I went down in the end.First of all, I started off using WebDav, however, Windows 7 has many many problems connecting to WebDav directories - very annoying. So this was a no go.Using XMing X11 Forwarding for developing in an IDE was a bit too slow and not efficient enough.So i decided to set up a samba share to do my development on and things work a treat! Thanks all!

Jamie 2010-05-27 08:25:28

Hi there. Incidentally, just this minute a colleague introduced me to XMing. It's rather wonderful! Going to see how Eclipse will perform as an XWindow on Windows. I will report back.

Jamie 2010-05-26 13:27:12

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