Re: official Emacs Docker image

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Filipe Silva <address@hidden> writes:

> Ted, I think that before the portable dumper branch get's merged or the big
> elc file branch gets merged, you are going to have a really hard time
> writing a docker file for that because of:
> https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/22801

I would like to state again that we (i.e. the GNU project) already have
a way to build valid Docker images for Emacs using GNU Guix.  It does
not even involve the use of Docker, nor does it require a third-party
“base image” of a GNU+Linux system.

For the lack of up-to-date HTML documentation see the Texinfo source
file of the manual here:

    http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/doc/guix.texi#n2480

Since Guix abides by the FSDG we can also be certain that the generated
image contains nothing but software libre.

Would it be helpful if the Guix project provided a Docker image for the
latest release for download?  To me it seems only natural for GNU Emacs
and GNU Guix to cooperate; it’s all GNU.

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Ricardo

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