From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stelian Iancu Subject: Re: Emacs+org-mode in a Docker? Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 09:17:01 +0100 Message-ID: <563DB37D.7010309@iancu.ch> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52966) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuygN-00082c-9r for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 03:17:08 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuygK-0003Eu-45 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 03:17:07 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-x232.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c09::232]:38299) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuygJ-0003Eq-TM for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 03:17:04 -0500 Received: by wmec201 with SMTP id c201so34582811wme.1 for ; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 00:17:02 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Grant Rettke , John Kitchin Cc: emacs-org list On 07/11/15 08:00, Grant Rettke wrote: > On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 7:07 PM, John Kitchin 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.