Re: [Bioc-devel] Docker granularity: containers for individual R packages, running on a normal R installation?

2015-04-14 Thread Sean Davis
Hi, Wolfgang. One way to think of docker is as a very efficient, self-contained virtual machine. The operative term is self-contained. The docker containers resemble real machines from the inside and the outside. These machines can expose ports and can mount file systems, but something like

Re: [Bioc-devel] request for more notices about build issues

2015-04-14 Thread Dan Tenenbaum
- Original Message - From: Michael Love michaelisaiahl...@gmail.com To: bioc-devel@r-project.org Sent: Wednesday, April 8, 2015 11:03:02 AM Subject: [Bioc-devel] request for more notices about build issues dear core Bioc-ers, It would be nice to have more devel mailing list

Re: [Bioc-devel] request for more notices about build issues

2015-04-14 Thread Michael Love
works for me. Thanks Dan. On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Dan Tenenbaum dtene...@fredhutch.org wrote: - Original Message - From: Michael Love michaelisaiahl...@gmail.com To: bioc-devel@r-project.org Sent: Wednesday, April 8, 2015 11:03:02 AM Subject: [Bioc-devel] request for more

Re: [Bioc-devel] Docker granularity: containers for individual R packages, running on a normal R installation?

2015-04-14 Thread Wolfgang Huber
Dear Sean I understand the second point. As for .Call not being the right paradigm, then maybe some other method invocation mechanism? In essence, my question is whether someone already has figured out whether new virtualisation tools can help avoid some of the tradtional Makeovers/configure