----- Original Message ----- > From: "Daniel J Walsh" <dwa...@redhat.com> > To: "Dusty Mabe" <du...@dustymabe.com>, atomic-devel@projectatomic.io, > container-to...@redhat.com > Sent: Friday, November 13, 2015 8:40:07 AM > Subject: Re: [atomic-devel] AtomicApp/Nulecule Design and Workflow > > > > On 11/12/2015 06:19 PM, Dusty Mabe wrote: > > Hey All, > > > > We've been having conversations recently about the current > > architecture of Atomicapp and the way we have envisioned people using > > it. I prepared a presentation for a meeting we had today about this > > and was asked to share it with atomic-devel and container-tools (see > > attached). > > > > From the meeting it seems that we all agree there are some > > improvements we can make in the existing workflow of developing and > > deploying Atomic Apps and we are going to pursue investigating a > > deeper integration between Atomic CLI and Atomic App with respect to > > deploying Nulecule applications. > > > > We also explored a 2nd option during the meeting (covered in the > > slides) which relates to changing the current model of packaging a > > Nulecule along with the Atomic App software in a single container to a > > model where the Nulecule lives on it's own, separate from Atomic App > > sofwtare. It was agreed in the meeting that this proposal could > > provide benefits over the current model and we will explore it further. > > > > We'd like to ask interested parties to get involved if you have a > > stake in this and collaborate with us on helping us make the > > architecture and the user experience better for creating and deploying > > Nuleculized applications via Atomic App. > > > > Thanks, > > Dusty > In my opinion we need to stop the confusion when talking about atomic > app versus atomic cli. These tools need to be merged together.
+1 atomicapp needs atomic (practically) to work -- it'd be simpler if they were combined. What's the downside? Jason > > We need to make the atomic command understand nulecule specifications so > that you could package up a nulecule app spec into a container > and atomic could just install and run it. > > Since both tools are currently written in Python merging them together > should not be that difficult. > >