From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Introducing =?utf-8?B?4oCYZ3VpeCBwYWNr4oCZ?= Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 00:03:22 +0100 Message-ID: <87tw6yyu6d.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87d1dodcnb.fsf@gnu.org> <87mvcred6y.fsf@gmail.com> <87d1dm304a.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38300) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cnCWT-0005xu-Ib for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Mar 2017 19:03:34 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cnCWS-0001N2-Q6 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Mar 2017 19:03:33 -0400 In-reply-to: <87d1dm304a.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: Andy Wingo , guix-devel Ludovic Courtès writes: >> What other use cases do you imagine? Is the intent to make it easy to >> deploy software (and the closure of its dependencies) to any place where >> you either can't or don't want to install Guix first? > > The use case for ‘guix archive -f docker’ (which already exists; I’m > just proposing to move it to ‘guix pack’) is when you’d like to pass > software to someone who has Docker but not Guix: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-01/msg00048.html > > I think the impetus for Ricardo was when the Emacs folks were discussing > of building Docker images of Emacs. :-) That’s right. Another use-case would be to create executable bundles *without* involving Docker. All that’s needed is a tiny stand-alone wrapper that takes care of spawning a container, mounting the pack in some way, and running a specified application in the container. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net