On Nov 21, 2014, at 9:01 AM, Jeff Trawick <traw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > * oh, and make it possible for 90% of the potential user base to be running > 2.4.latest in several minutes without possibly interfering with existing > software; user guide material (above) must support having the user's own > application deployed behind httpd a few minutes later >
The “new hotness” making something like this possible, on Linux and OS X at least, is Docker. Here’s the Dockerfile in github: https://github.com/docker-library/docs/tree/master/httpd <https://github.com/docker-library/docs/tree/master/httpd> The “deploy X application, according to how the developers spelled it out, isolated from host OS environment” scenario has been pretty much captured and owned by the Docker folks; they’ve done a masterful job of it. Best, Victor -- Victor J. Orlikowski <> victor.j.orlikow...@alumni.duke.edu