Hi Larry! Thanks for this, it's really great! Actually Garth and I had exactly the same idea and we have begun development on a branch here:
https://bitbucket.org/garth-wells/fenics-virtual/src/8f25457e2be23b74d29dbdd97aa292d6af7df082/?at=vagrant-docker We are supporting vagrant with both virtualbox and docker providers. Perhaps we could join efforts at this point? I think we are perhaps a little ahead on the vagrant/virtualbox approach, whilst you seem to have the manual source builds sorted. Also our docs are more detailed. Together I think we could work towards a really complete approach. What I think would be good: We could use the docker.io 'trusted build' facilities to generate the docker images from a Dockerfile hosted on a repository in bitbucket. Then the images would automatically appear on docker.io. Three images might be suitable: 1) FEniCS stable from Ubuntu PPA. 2) FEniCS nightly built using Dorsal. 3) FEniCS stable built using Dorsal. Then the Vagrant script will pull the correct image based on an environment variable (see my example). Also I have had great success using https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker as the base image for docker. Could we standardise on this base-image? It has many advantages over the default ubunty base image in that it acts more like a 'proper' ubuntu system with init etc. Long-term after sufficient testing we make vagrant the official way of installing FEniCS on all non-Ubuntu platforms. ----- Dr. Jack S. Hale Research Associate University of Luxembourg Campus Kirchberg G005 Phone +352 44 66 44 5236 [email protected] Latest publications and conferences: http://goo.gl/rNiISG ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7216-861X Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Fx9lQ7MAAAAJ&hl=de _______________________________________________ fenics mailing list [email protected] http://fenicsproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fenics
