On 31 October 2015 at 17:04, Juan Nunez-Iglesias wrote:
| I actually LOLed when Dirk called Docker "cross-platform". Currently, both OSX
| and Windows installs use lightweight Linux VMs to run Docker. I suppose that
| would work, but I think people appreciate using native solutions.

I guess you never tried Docker.   Thanks for already having opinion though.
 
| And brew requires an existing Xcode installation. When it’s not there (most
| machines), it’s a 1GB+ download. Fun times for the workshop’s wifi.

See, here we basically agree. 700mb conda download including an llvm compiler
and all Qt libraries just to teach a few lines of Python? No thanks.

Anyway, I promised not to get dragged into this so I better stop.

Dirk

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