Hi, (Sorry Dany I have overlooked this email.)
> > While I was researching gitlab, I came across a feature where they have > > their > > own Docker container registry on there. Apparently, the Docker CLI can > > fetch > > from whatever server the user wants! > > > > $ docker run [options] registry.gitlab.com/group/project/image [arguments] > > > > That got me thinking, we could easily also release Guix on something like > > that. Is our HTTP webserver enough to have a Docker registry, without > > installing extra stuff? Docker images can be quickly really big. Can Berlin support such traffic? > > $ docker run localhost/foo > > Unable to find image 'localhost/foo:latest' locally > > docker: Error response from daemon: Get "http://localhost/v2/": dial tcp > > 127.0.0.1:80: connect: connection refused. > > > > Aha! > > > > Do we want to do it? > > I say YES :). If we have a way to create these containers we can > distribute them through http IPFS. We'll help write a nice discovery > web interface which initially can be a simple web page. I don't think > we need Docker containers for every package. But if there is a demand > for a specific tool it can be very helpful to distribute software that > way. At FOSDEM19, in the session "world domination", we discussed a service where the user provides a manifest.scm file or click to select various packages (and optionally a channels.scm file) and then the service returns the Docker image ready to be pulled (or docker run URL). Well, this killer-feature "service" seems a far objective. :-) Proposing a Docker image ready-to-use containing the package manager could be nice and a first step in that direction, IMHO. The same way <http://guix.gnu.org/en/download/latest/>, maybe adding a Docker (or Singularity) image would be nice to have. > In fact, one software I am writing depends on a host of programming > languages including Python, Racket and Rust. A Guix Docker container > is by far the simplest solution to distribute the software. And Guix > containers are tiny - which is really nice. Guix containers tiny? It depends on what you pack. :-) (For example, only Emacs is not tiny.) All the best, simon
