Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: >> What other use cases do you imagine? Is the intent to make it easy to >> deploy software (and the closure of its dependencies) to any place where >> you either can't or don't want to install Guix first? > > The use case for ‘guix archive -f docker’ (which already exists; I’m > just proposing to move it to ‘guix pack’) is when you’d like to pass > software to someone who has Docker but not Guix: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-01/msg00048.html > > I think the impetus for Ricardo was when the Emacs folks were discussing > of building Docker images of Emacs. :-)
That’s right. Another use-case would be to create executable bundles *without* involving Docker. All that’s needed is a tiny stand-alone wrapper that takes care of spawning a container, mounting the pack in some way, and running a specified application in the container. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net
