> Any chance this could be combined with lethalman's work on turning > derivations into docker containers?
Do you have a link to this project? All I can find is this blog post: http://lethalman.blogspot.com/2016/04/cheap-docker-images-with-nix_15.html We can get most of the advantages of the container features of Docker using just cgroups/namespaces. The main advantage of using Docker is that lots of different systems support it. The Open Container standard might be an easier way to go: it's just a folder with a /config.json file: https://github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 8:32 AM, Peter Hoeg <pe...@hoeg.com> wrote: > Nice work Matthew! > >>> I would vote for mirroring this tool in nixos github namespace (or even >>> trying to make this project official one) as it can have big impact of >>> propagating/implementing nix ideas into environments where it's not >>> straight forward to use it. > > > Any chance this could be combined with lethalman's work on turning > derivations into docker containers? There seems to be a fair amount of > overlap and having a generic mechanism to create a runable closure means > we could relatively easily support the containerization mechanism and/or > application distribution format of the day. > > -- > Regards, > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev