Ted,

https://hub.docker.com/r/gnuemacs/emacs/ is giving me http 404. Is that the
correct address?

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 18:10:53 +0100 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
> wrote:
>
> RW> Filipe Silva <filipe.silva@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> Ted, I think that before the portable dumper branch get's merged or the
> big
> >> elc file branch gets merged, you are going to have a really hard time
> >> writing a docker file for that because of:
> >> https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/22801
>
> RW> I would like to state again that we (i.e. the GNU project) already have
> RW> a way to build valid Docker images for Emacs using GNU Guix.  It does
> RW> not even involve the use of Docker, nor does it require a third-party
> RW> “base image” of a GNU+Linux system.
>
> I don't see a problem providing both as "gnuemacs/guix-emacs" and
> "gnuemacs/docker-emacs" or something like that. Or as tags of
> "gnuemacs/emacs". I don't think they are equivalent, though, so the need
> for a `docker build' solution is still there.
>
> RW> Would it be helpful if the Guix project provided a Docker image for the
> RW> latest release for download?  To me it seems only natural for GNU Emacs
> RW> and GNU Guix to cooperate; it’s all GNU.
>
> Sure. But there's more that Docker Hub offers: a global namespace; a
> distributed download service; automated builds. You can upload the Guix
> image to Docker Hub and get all of those benefits except the automated
> builds: see https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub/repos/
>
> If you can pack an ARM build into the image so it's multiarch, that's
> great too. I know there's a way to do it with the Docker tools, so the
> image format supports it. But it's definitely not a requirement.
>
> I can add you to the Docker Hub account so you can do at least the first
> uploads. Later we can automate them through Hydra or some other CI tool.
>
> Ted
>
>
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