I'm really interested in the gitlab-ci part of this -- can you describe? Do
you think it will translate to travis on github? I'd prefer to continue
using github if I can since there's so much infrastructure there, and I
tend to use the web interface in my teaching.

I hadn't even heard of guix, it looks intriguing, thanks.

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 4:19 AM, Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> wrote:

> Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I'd like to provide a way for people to copy my course materials in the
> > easiest possible way. At present my export & grading processes rely on
> some
> > customization of various tools, mostly emacs-based. So I'm thinking the
> > easiest thing might be fore me to define a virtual machine, maybe
> > docker-based, and distribute that.
>
> Docker might be handy if you need a whole array of tools, say R, Org, a
> number of libraries etc etc.  It's not too complicated to created new
> docker images and you can host/compile them on "dockerhub".  You can find
> the files that create docker images on e.g. github.
>
> Personally, I use an external config.el file to publish files against the
> ELPA version of Org.
>
> Something like,
>
>     emacs --batch --no-init-file --load paper-config/org-conf.el
> --find-file $1 --funcall $2
>
> In addition, I compile the papers with gitlab-ci.  You can include
> instructions of what software is needed in the .gitlab-ci.yml.
>
> You might also be able to use something like Guix.  I think it can even be
> used to create docker images these days.
>
> Hope it helps,
> Rasmus
>
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