Ah, thank you!
This explanation makes sense.
It is not trivial to figure out from the website - the "learn more" gives
some hints of universal packaging, but not the real description.
Also, how is it "learn more" if this is the very first hint as to what the
software actually does.
Igor
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Markus Sitzmann <[email protected]
> wrote:
> It is basically a VM that can be scripted from the host system. The VM
> client can be preconfigured with anything your software depends on
> (including databases etc and can be based on arbitrary Linux
> distributions independent of the Linux distribution of the host).
>
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Igor Filippov
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Not to criticize or anything, but I've seen this issue quite a few times
> -
> > perhaps the problem
> > is actually with me and everybody else is "in the know"?
> >
> > I've spent last few minutes clicking around Docker website, I still
> cannot
> > figure out what it is and what it does?
> > I found that it runs on all Linux builds, that the latest release is a
> work
> > of 130 people, that there are Trusted Builds and Docker Hack Days.
> > But I still cannot puzzle out what it does!!!
> >
> > Would it kill the project maintainers to put a few words somewhere on the
> > top of the website what the software is actually all about?
> >
> > Igor
> >
> > P.S. I finally found some clues under "Learn More" link. I guess the
> point
> > is only those who already know or the really persistent ones or the ones
> > with
> > time to spare need to bother.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Samo Turk <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi rdkitters,
> >>
> >> New release of Docker is available and it brings one very impotant
> >> improvement - it runs on any linux distribution (as long as the kernel
> is
> >> 3.8 or later). I updated "RDKit Dockerfile" so it builds everything on
> top
> >> of Ubuntu 13.10 base image. To build the container do:
> >> "git clone https://gist.github.com/6669650.git ."
> >> "mv Dockerfile-rdkit Dockerfile"
> >> "sudo docker build -t rdkit ."
> >>
> >> Run it with:
> >> "sudo docker run -p 127.0.0.1:8889:8888 rdkit"
> >> and IPython notebook will be available on http://127.0.0.1:8889/
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Samo
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 9:08 AM, <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I also highly appreciate your efforts!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Paul
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> > Stuff like this that makes it easier for people to access/use the
> >>> > RDKit is great!
> >>> >
> >>> > The more options we have the better.
> >>> >
> >>> > Many thanks to you guys for looking into this stuff. :-)
> >>> >
> >>> > -greg
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>>
> >>> > Interesting stuff, looks promising!
> >>> > Got pulled in so I created a Dockerfile that builds an image with
> >>> > rdkit, ipython and matplotlib. Once the image is built it runs
> >>> > ipython notebook server. You can find the source here: https://
> >>> > gist.github.com/samoturk/6669650
> >>> > Just follow instructions in the first few lines of the Dockerfile to
> >>> > build and run it..
> >>> >
> >>> > Regards,
> >>> > Samo
> >>> >
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