gOn Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 12:29:17PM +0200, Jack HALE wrote: > 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.
Agree on this. Great to see both efforts in this direction. I would suggest at this point moving everything to a new official fenics-project repo. No need to wait to make this the official installation method. The installation seems to work fine and by promoting it to the official installation method, you will get better and faster user feedback. I would guess it is already more foolproof than Dorsal and it will contribute to removing a large percentage of installation issues/questions. -- Anders _______________________________________________ fenics mailing list [email protected] http://fenicsproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fenics
