Hello, Pjotr Prins <pjotr.publi...@thebird.nl> skribis:
> I know this is not a priority right now for maintainers, but I think > it would be really useful if we provide ready-made containers for > certain packages. This will allow people who have the infrastructure > to run containers to start using reproducible Guix builds. With that, > I think there will be an increased interest in our technology. FWIW at work people a colleague of mine got into Guix with the goal of being able to run their software on a different cluster that has Singularity but not Guix. People interested in this might use Guix on their laptop just to build Singularity images and view it as a tool to build bundles (which is of course unsatisfactory but it’s a way to get started!). > Maybe it is something to discuss at FOSDEM, but I wonder what it would > take to have the build farm automatically provide Docker containers > for marked packages and offer them through the web interface. A while back we fantasized about the possibility of having a web service that would produce “packs” of Guix packages on demand. That may allow us to be #1 on HN for a couple of hours ;-), but it would also be quite resource-hungry (and the service itself needs to be written to begin with.) Such a service would have to use its own resources IMO, not those of the build farm, which is already busy enough. Ludo’.
