On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 07:58:06PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > i) A few months ago I brought up Docker. And to put it somewhat > bluntly, I was told to get lost. We have a code of conduct so > the words were nice but I think I express the sentiment fairly > :) That said, some other folks are also working on Docker > containers in the space so we may here some more.
That's probably this thread [1]. Related projects mentioned were: * Preston Holmes' JiffyLab [2,3,4,5]. * Tim Dettrick's dit4c [6,7]. As I recall, most of the concerns were: * How legal is it to publish/distribute a Docker image containing compiled versions of copyleft software without also mirroring the associated source code? * Can students who sometimes struggle with installing Git successfully install Docker? My impression was that, aside from these issues (which I still think are valid), the reception on discuss@ was fairly positive. Obviously, neither issue is insurmountable: * There's a lot of compiled GPL software on the Docker Hub without any lawsuits I've heard about. * If you host the Docker containers yourself with something like JiffyLab or tmpnb, you sidestep broken student installs, but become more susceptible to broken/overloaded wifi networks. I think instructors are free to chose whatever delivery mechanism they feel best fits their target audience and location. Cheers, Trevor [1]: http://lists.software-carpentry.org/pipermail/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org/2014-July/001867.html [2]: http://lists.software-carpentry.org/pipermail/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org/2014-July/001869.html [3]: http://lists.software-carpentry.org/pipermail/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org/2013-June/000668.html [4]: http://ptone.com/dablog/2013/06/introducing-jiffylab/ [5]: https://github.com/ptone/jiffylab [6]: http://lists.software-carpentry.org/pipermail/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org/2014-July/001871.html [7]: https://github.com/dit4c/ -- This email may be signed or encrypted with GnuPG (http://www.gnupg.org). For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy
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