On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 11:52:38PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On 31 October 2015 at 17:04, Juan Nunez-Iglesias wrote: > | 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. > > I guess you never tried Docker. Thanks for already having opinion though.
>From what I understand, Juan is correct here; Docker runs inside of lightweight VMs on both Mac and Windows. Has this changed? SWC has always had a tendency to prefer native solutions, so a -1 on Docker is consistent with that. If we can identify a good native package manager that works robustly and is widely used, I for one would be overjoyed - even if it's a large download. That having been said, I hope Docker can become a solution for robustly teaching "edge" tools that aren't core enough to SWC/DC to target maintenance resources on. This applies to many bioinformatics programs, for example, and could be a really nice solution. We're doing a Docker hands-on in a week [0] with one goal of seeing whether or not it's easy for many people to install Docker. If anyone has any suggestions for additional things you'd like us to test, please drop me a note off-list! best, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, [email protected] [0] dib-training.readthedocs.org/en/pub/2015-11-09-docker.html _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
