On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 3:16 PM Waldek Kozaczuk <jwkozac...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Now that we have full control of Capstan let us try to improve it a
> little. Here is my wish list or things I would like to do in short-term:
>
>    - Add ability to pull kernel and mpm packages from github
>    - Add diagnostic option to run (-d?) or enhance -v (verbose) that
>    would:
>       - show full command line when invoking given hypervisor
>       - list networking ports exposed
>       - show warning when not using accelerator (KVM, etc)
>       - possibly add --dry-run
>    - Add support of running with firecracker
>    - Add support of running with Intel HAXM accelerator (would help on
>    Mac and Windows)
>    - Improved VirtualBox support
>       - For example fix this annoying bug -
>       https://github.com/mikelangelo-project/capstan/issues/71
>    - Address at least some issues from old mikelangelo capstan
>       - Support to build images for multiple platforms -
>       https://github.com/mikelangelo-project/capstan/issues/93
>          - use qemu-img convert?
>       - vt acceleration options for qemu -
>       https://github.com/mikelangelo-project/capstan/issues/94
>       - Add ability to add arbitrary directory from host
>    - Ad ability to add specific executable SO from host along with all
>    dependencies
>       - find dependencies using ldd like we do in python3x app
>    - Add ability to find collisions/conflicts - same file but from two
>    mpms and possibly different version etc
>
> Also there is a little bit of dichotomy between 'capstan build' and
> 'capstan package build' where the 1st one uses Capstan file and other
> creates image from composing it from mpms. Is there a value in keeping
> both? Maybe remove Capstanfile option altogether? I do not remember ever
> using it, what are the advantages?
>

Pekka may have more insights here as he designed Capstan initially, but I
think the idea was to have something similar - in both spirit and
(somewhat) in syntax - to docker.


> On other hand it would be nice to have capstan package build have an
> option to call make or something before composing all files into an image?
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Waldek
>
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