Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis: > Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: > >> Your thoughts about the point about Galaxy? > > I talked to one of the Galaxy core developers at a conference and they > told me they have implemented Docker support recently. Essentially, > they build software in a minimal Docker system and then extract the > binaries such that they can be run without Docker.
OK. So they assume the Docker daemon is running, right? And it’s running as root? That’d be good for us. ;-) > What they suggest is to add Guix support simply by using Guix inside of > Docker… Obviously, I’m not a fan of this because of how inelegant this > all seems. When it comes to bringing Guix to Galaxy I think we have > cultural problems to overcome, not really technical issues. Well, if this approach allows us to demonstrate the improvements Guix can bring (and to sidestep the cultural differences), it may be a good idea to try it. Thanks for your feedback, Ludo’.
