Matt Price <mopto...@gmail.com> writes:
> I'd like to provide a way for people to copy my course materials in the
> easiest possible way. At present my export & grading processes rely on some
> customization of various tools, mostly emacs-based. So I'm thinking the
> easiest thing might be fore me to define a virtual machine, maybe
> docker-based, and distribute that.
Docker might be handy if you need a whole array of tools, say R, Org, a
number of libraries etc etc. It's not too complicated to created new
docker images and you can host/compile them on "dockerhub". You can find
the files that create docker images on e.g. github.
Personally, I use an external config.el file to publish files against the
ELPA version of Org.
Something like,
emacs --batch --no-init-file --load paper-config/org-conf.el --find-file $1
--funcall $2
In addition, I compile the papers with gitlab-ci. You can include
instructions of what software is needed in the .gitlab-ci.yml.
You might also be able to use something like Guix. I think it can even be
used to create docker images these days.
Hope it helps,
Rasmus
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