From: Stelian Iancu <si@siancu.net>
To: Grant Rettke <gcr@wisdomandwonder.com>,
John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: emacs-org list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs+org-mode in a Docker?
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 09:17:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <563DB37D.7010309@iancu.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAjq1mcRUoMircNyut-v4KbB5RH2h3QyHK2JMDBsiSoZ2c4rZw@mail.gmail.com>
On 07/11/15 08:00, Grant Rettke wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 7:07 PM, John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>> Thanks for all the notes! It looks like a not too trivial exercise that
>> might have to be a summer project for me.
>
> For the past year, I've been curious about how to make my Emacs
> environment available to me and anyone else, easily. Goal is to make
> working on a Linux, Windows, or OSX GUI a one-click setup. For me,
> Vagrant is the obvious solution here. Vagrant and Packer,
> specifically.
>
> The benefit of using Packer to build a Vagrant image is that the user
> doesn't have to wait for the download and installation of big stuff
> like TeXLive. That get's me curious if we (all Emacs/Org users) might
> want to build a base-image that includes all the stuff out there.
> Might make it easy for users to try out lots of different configs
> without having to deal with all of the software requirements. While
> that isn't a "big deal", it is just easier for them so they can focus
> on doing stuff with Org.
>
This is a good idea, I'm personally using Vagrant for a lot of
development related stuff.
However the users still have to download the base box image initially
and that can be many GBs, depending on what you include in it.
Also, would you include Xorg and thus the ability to run Emacs in
graphical mode or only a terminal-based Emacs?
S.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-07 8:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-30 16:13 Emacs+org-mode in a Docker? John Kitchin
2015-10-30 19:57 ` Matt Price
2015-10-30 23:58 ` briangpowell .
2015-11-04 11:07 ` John Kitchin
2015-11-07 7:00 ` Grant Rettke
2015-11-07 8:17 ` Stelian Iancu [this message]
2015-11-17 12:51 ` Grant Rettke
2015-11-09 14:45 ` John Kitchin
2015-11-17 12:56 ` Grant Rettke
2015-11-17 20:46 ` joakim
2015-11-18 9:47 ` Alexey Lebedeff
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