I'm really interested in the gitlab-ci part of this -- can you describe? Do you think it will translate to travis on github? I'd prefer to continue using github if I can since there's so much infrastructure there, and I tend to use the web interface in my teaching.
I hadn't even heard of guix, it looks intriguing, thanks. On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 4:19 AM, Rasmus <ras...@gmx.us> wrote: > Matt Price <mopto...@gmail.com> writes: > > > I'd like to provide a way for people to copy my course materials in the > > easiest possible way. At present my export & grading processes rely on > some > > customization of various tools, mostly emacs-based. So I'm thinking the > > easiest thing might be fore me to define a virtual machine, maybe > > docker-based, and distribute that. > > Docker might be handy if you need a whole array of tools, say R, Org, a > number of libraries etc etc. It's not too complicated to created new > docker images and you can host/compile them on "dockerhub". You can find > the files that create docker images on e.g. github. > > Personally, I use an external config.el file to publish files against the > ELPA version of Org. > > Something like, > > emacs --batch --no-init-file --load paper-config/org-conf.el > --find-file $1 --funcall $2 > > In addition, I compile the papers with gitlab-ci. You can include > instructions of what software is needed in the .gitlab-ci.yml. > > You might also be able to use something like Guix. I think it can even be > used to create docker images these days. > > Hope it helps, > Rasmus > > -- > History is what should never happen again > > >
