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Re:Please do not use Python for tooling by falcolas on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @11:13AM (#32483866)
Yes.

The actual image is a tar file, and container runtimes include commands for both exporting and importing. Exceptionally portable. More portable than JAR files and Go binaries, at least.

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Re:Please do not use Python for tooling by PurpleRamen on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @11:35AM (#32484201)
Wait, which container are we talking about? Docker? AppImage? Kubernetes? What about the runtime?
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Re:Please do not use Python for tooling by jrockway on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @01:40PM (#32486153)
OCI Images. You can run them in Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, systemd-nspawn, etc.

Nobody is going to use your tool if they have to fetch it from a container registry and have to run it isolated from their filesystem and network, though. OCI images are fine if you have a pet app and you have to ship it to a production server. Not that convenient for interactive tools, though. Consider:

  $ docker run -v /tmp/foobar:/tmp/foobar debian:stable ls /tmp/foobar
  a.txt
You really just want to type "ls /tmp/foobar".
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Re:Please do not use Python for tooling by falcolas on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @02:44PM (#32486997)
That's something that aliases excel at.
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