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Re: Guix on clusters and in HPC
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Guix on clusters and in HPC |
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Wed, 26 Oct 2016 13:51:05 +0200 |
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Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Your thoughts about the point about Galaxy?
>
> I talked to one of the Galaxy core developers at a conference and they
> told me they have implemented Docker support recently. Essentially,
> they build software in a minimal Docker system and then extract the
> binaries such that they can be run without Docker.
OK. So they assume the Docker daemon is running, right? And it’s
running as root? That’d be good for us. ;-)
> What they suggest is to add Guix support simply by using Guix inside of
> Docker… Obviously, I’m not a fan of this because of how inelegant this
> all seems. When it comes to bringing Guix to Galaxy I think we have
> cultural problems to overcome, not really technical issues.
Well, if this approach allows us to demonstrate the improvements Guix
can bring (and to sidestep the cultural differences), it may be a good
idea to try it.
Thanks for your feedback,
Ludo’.