Hello Guix! l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
> Specifically there are two things we can implement: > > 1. A ‘guix run’ command along the lines of > <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2018-01/msg00108.html>. > > 2. A mechanism that would allow, say, ‘guix package -i PKG --pola’ to > automatically add “least-authority wrappers” around the binaries of > PKG, pretty much like ‘guix pack --relocatable’ does (see > ‘wrapped-package’ in (guix scripts pack)). Speaking of which, a colleague of mine told me about Whalebrew <https://github.com/bfirsh/whalebrew>, which takes a somewhat similar approach: Whalebrew creates aliases for Docker images so you can run them as if they were native commands. It's like Homebrew, but with Docker images. Docker works well for packaging up development environments, but there are lots of tools that aren't tied to a particular project: awscli for managing your AWS account, ffmpeg for converting video, wget for downloading files, and so on. Whalebrew makes those things work with Docker, too. There’s this important difference: Packages are Docker images published on Docker Hub. Ludo’.
