From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Kitchin Subject: Re: Emacs+org-mode in a Docker? Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2015 09:45:44 -0500 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41668) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZvnhV-0003kL-Do for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 09:45:45 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZvnhQ-0003rW-VB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 09:45:41 -0500 Received: from mail-qk0-x22b.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c09::22b]:35116) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZvnhQ-0003rH-Ph for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 09:45:36 -0500 Received: by qkao63 with SMTP id o63so29574408qka.2 for ; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 06:45:35 -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 Cc: emacs-org list This sounds a lot like what I have in mind. Have you tried doing this yet? Grant Rettke writes: > 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. -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu