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 -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected] _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
