I actually LOLed when Dirk called Docker "cross-platform". Currently, both OSX
and Windows installs use lightweight Linux VMs to run Docker. I suppose that
would work, but I think people appreciate using native solutions.
And brew requires an existing Xcode installation. When it’s not there (most
machines), it’s a 1GB+ download. Fun times for the workshop’s wifi.
On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 31 October 2015 at 18:42, Michael Sarahan wrote:
> | using. This gets back to your Docker idea, and that would be even more
> ideal,
> | if it weren't so hard to use on non-Linux platforms. I haven't tried it in
> | some time, so perhaps things have improved since I last played with it
> I am not much of a Windows user or expert, but setting it up on a machine at
> work was _trivial_ about a good 12 to 15 months ago: run the boot2docker
> installer exe. And you're done. And with that I had a container with
> RStudio-Server-on-its-Linux running in Windows and the Windows browser
> connected to it -- for several weeks.
> I can only imagine that the tools have gotten better since. AFAIK they got
> reworked/rebranded are now called Docker Machine / Docker Toolbox.
> Dirk
> --
> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected]
> _______________________________________________
> Discuss mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
_______________________________________________
Discuss mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
