This is great and it should be added on the webpage as an alternative way
of installation.

We have pleny of installation options at the moment. My suggestion is we
advertise them all equally for some time and then see which one works out
best. Survival of the fittest... Then at some point I think we should
reduce the number of options to minimize maintenance costs.

--
Anders


mån 1 juni 2015 kl 09:56 skrev Jack Hale <[email protected]>:

> Thanks Larry, thats a very nice description.
>
> I would add that if you want to setup a 'lab environment' where you
> might have a few more packages, e.g. matplotlib, pandas etc. you could
> write your own Dockerfile, using our image as a base. This works as
> follows:
>
> FROM fenicsproject/stable-ppa:latest
> MAINTAINER <[email protected]>
>
> RUN any_command_you_like_here
>
> The really clever bit is because of Docker's 'layered file systems'
> this should only take a few megabytes more of disk space over and
> above our image. Another nice side-effect of the layered file system
> is that you can have as many containers running as you want. I ran 100
> fenics containers (!) on my laptop the other day and the disk and CPU
> overhead was negligible. More practically I usually run one per
> project.
>
> Jack Hale
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