Deno: Docker image

[mohsen1]

Building this on Mac was not very straightforward. I can work on a Dockerfile is that's inline with project goals

This is being worked on here: https://github.com/ry/deno/pull/63

[ry]

Yes please!

[wbgbg]

The compile instructions works like a charm for me on Mac except the lack of pkg-config. Afterbrew install pkg-config the compile success.

[hinell]

Yeah. Would like to try it on the windows too

[beeman]

I made a small playground with some examples that allows you to run scripts with deno using Docker.

It uses the deno-docker container created by @maxmcd.

[talcarl]

Yes please, that's good starting point for beginner like me who wants to get involved in the project.

[klintmane]

Published a _small_ npm package/wrapper for this at srcode-org/deno-run.

It will expose a deno command which when run will create a docker container from deno-docker, mount the cwd to the container and execute the given command (like you would normally run node).

Just make sure you have Docker installed first.

[ry]

We decided not to use docker.

[mknet]

Hi @ry, could explain in short why you decided to not use docker?

Thanks and regards
Marcel

[ry]

@mknet Yes, sorry for not doing it above. We want to support reproducible builds on major platforms: linux, windows, and mac. This necessitates a more sophisticated way of managing build dependencies than a Dockerfile - we use Chrome's build system gn for this. Although it wouldn't be much work to add a Dockerfile, it would be something we have to maintain in parallel to our normal build - which is unnecessary overhead at this stage. Our travis CI setup is relatively complicated, and would add Docker if it replaced that complication... but I don't think anyone has gotten it working in a way that satisfies our requirements. In particular, clean builds of Deno take on the order of 1 hour - we have a hard requirement on supporting fast incremental builds thru caching of some sort.

[mknet]

Thanks, @ry

[hayd]

I also have Docker files here https://github.com/hayd/deno-docker (hayd/deno).