From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: official Emacs Docker image
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 19:10:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1cMkm5-0001hh-9R@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2twft1oqm.fsf@newartisans.com> (message from John Wiegley on Wed, 13 Jul 2016 09:34:09 -0700)
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> You create a Docker build recipe by picking a "base" GNU/Linux distribution
> (some variant of GNU/Linux that has an absolute minimum of included programs),
> a recipe to install build tools, and then a recipes to build the target
> program. There are many ways to optimize this so that the result is as small
> as possible, but that's the basics in a nutshell.
> If the FSF doesn't endorse Debian, then an alternate GNU/Linux base can be
> chosen, and the build step crafted to suit it.
I think I follow this part.
> The final "image" as they call it will be an Emacs binary, built on that base,
> that users can download and directly run from any of the major operating
> systems (Mac OS X, Windows, any flavor of GNU/Linux).
At this point, I am confused, because the statements seem to conflict.
Would the "Docker image" of Emacs _include_ the base system? Or would
it be an executable Emacs package that could be installed straight _on
top of_ that base system?
If it is the latter, I don't see how it could run on any other
GNU/Linux system version aside from the one chosen as the base,
except using a virtual machine containing the chosen base system.
If it is the latter, then I see how it could run on another GNU/Linux system
in a virtual machine, but using the virtual machine seems like a drawback.
Can you please explain?
I do see how running on other systems by running GNU/Linux in a
virtual machine could make maintenance easier for us -- we could
perhaps delete some of our code used to support those other systems.
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Thread overview: 126+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-10 13:57 Move to a cadence release model? John Yates
2015-11-10 14:28 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-10 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-10 17:03 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-11 0:17 ` Release process (was Re: Move to a cadence release model?) Stephen Leake
2015-11-11 0:24 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-11 3:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-11 10:45 ` Stephen Leake
2015-11-11 15:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-11 23:06 ` bug policy (was Re: Release process) Stephen Leake
2015-11-12 16:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-12 16:39 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-12 17:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-12 17:50 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-12 18:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-11 16:39 ` Release process (was Re: Move to a cadence release model?) John Wiegley
2015-11-12 8:19 ` Xue Fuqiao
2015-11-17 0:09 ` Xue Fuqiao
2015-11-12 8:15 ` Xue Fuqiao
2015-11-10 14:32 ` Move to a cadence release model? Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-10 17:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-10 17:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-10 17:37 ` Óscar Fuentes
2015-11-10 17:44 ` Automate Emacs UI testing? (was: Move to a cadence release model?) John Wiegley
2015-11-10 18:01 ` Automate Emacs UI testing? Ashton Kemerling
2015-11-10 18:02 ` Automate Emacs UI testing? (was: Move to a cadence release model?) Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-10 19:16 ` Automate Emacs UI testing? joakim
2015-11-10 19:37 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-11 16:59 ` Richard Stallman
2015-11-11 17:18 ` joakim
2015-11-11 23:27 ` Richard Stallman
2015-11-12 2:26 ` official Emacs Docker image (was: Automate Emacs UI testing?) Ted Zlatanov
2015-11-12 15:49 ` official Emacs Docker image Nic Ferrier
2015-11-12 21:01 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-11-12 22:31 ` official Emacs Docker image (was: Automate Emacs UI testing?) Richard Stallman
2015-11-12 23:32 ` official Emacs Docker image joakim
2016-07-06 15:22 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-07-07 21:56 ` Richard Stallman
2016-07-08 13:36 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-07-09 16:54 ` Richard Stallman
2016-07-09 23:04 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-07-10 14:25 ` Richard Stallman
2016-07-12 22:45 ` John Wiegley
2016-07-13 13:12 ` Richard Stallman
2016-07-13 16:34 ` John Wiegley
2016-12-30 0:10 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2016-12-30 0:53 ` John Wiegley
2016-12-30 21:36 ` Richard Stallman
2016-12-30 22:01 ` joakim
2016-12-30 22:08 ` John Wiegley
2016-12-31 18:25 ` Richard Stallman
2017-01-27 14:56 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-01-27 19:45 ` Filipe Silva
2017-01-30 14:36 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-01-30 17:10 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-01-30 17:44 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-01-31 0:14 ` Filipe Silva
2017-01-31 14:32 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-02-01 3:03 ` Richard Stallman
2017-02-01 15:25 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-02-02 2:53 ` Richard Stallman
2017-02-02 5:13 ` Mike Gerwitz
2017-02-02 14:21 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-02-03 7:00 ` Stefan Reichör
2017-02-03 11:18 ` Filipe Silva
2017-02-04 2:56 ` Mike Gerwitz
2017-02-03 13:45 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-02-03 21:59 ` Richard Stallman
2017-02-03 23:38 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-02-03 23:54 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-02-04 0:37 ` Filipe Silva
2017-02-04 1:12 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-02-04 1:32 ` Filipe Silva
2017-02-04 23:52 ` Richard Stallman
2017-02-05 0:24 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-02-04 23:54 ` Richard Stallman
2017-02-04 3:11 ` Mike Gerwitz
2017-02-04 4:13 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-02-04 4:47 ` Mike Gerwitz
2017-02-06 10:49 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2017-02-13 8:37 ` Richard Stallman
2017-02-13 9:55 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2017-02-14 0:48 ` Richard Stallman
2017-02-14 2:07 ` Mike Gerwitz
2017-02-14 2:04 ` Mike Gerwitz
2017-02-04 23:54 ` Richard Stallman
2017-02-05 0:47 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-02-04 23:48 ` Richard Stallman
2017-01-28 2:18 ` Richard Stallman
2017-02-21 15:01 ` Philippe Vaucher
2017-03-02 15:03 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-03-03 10:09 ` Philippe Vaucher
2017-03-03 10:15 ` Philippe Vaucher
2017-03-08 20:30 ` Philippe Vaucher
2017-03-13 10:03 ` Philippe Vaucher
2018-04-04 18:33 ` Philippe Vaucher
2016-12-31 22:04 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-01-01 5:39 ` Elias Mårtenson
2017-01-01 9:03 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-01-01 10:15 ` Elias Mårtenson
2017-01-06 15:56 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-01-07 23:19 ` Philippe Vaucher
2016-12-31 1:22 ` Yann Hodique
2016-12-31 2:08 ` John Wiegley
2017-01-28 11:06 ` Alex Bennée
2016-12-31 10:11 ` Philippe Vaucher
2016-07-13 14:41 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-11-12 11:36 ` Automate Emacs UI testing? Mathieu Lirzin
2015-11-12 11:43 ` joakim
2015-11-10 18:20 ` Move to a cadence release model? Richard Stallman
2015-11-10 23:50 ` Xue Fuqiao
2015-11-10 23:58 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-11 1:55 ` John Yates
2015-11-11 9:02 ` Xue Fuqiao
2015-11-11 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-12 22:35 ` Richard Stallman
2015-11-11 15:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-12 11:27 ` Stelian Iancu
2015-11-12 16:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-12 16:44 ` Stelian Iancu
2015-11-12 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-11 15:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-12 7:23 ` Xue Fuqiao
2015-11-12 7:37 ` Xue Fuqiao
2015-11-12 16:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-20 3:02 ` Stefan Monnier
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