Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about build systems (2012)
by ori_b on Sunday July 19, 2020 @12:31AM
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> But on the other hand, is a dependency on having Docker available really worse for portability than having a dependency on having a reasonably standard Unix environment?
I often need to run it somewhere other than docker -- possibly integrating it into a different program.
Docker doesn't make this impossible, but it's a sign that portability was not considered when the code was written, and I'm in for pain.
I often need to run it somewhere other than docker -- possibly integrating it into a different program.
Docker doesn't make this impossible, but it's a sign that portability was not considered when the code was written, and I'm in for pain.