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Imo, making a Dockerfile for an ancient project isn't always easy

• fmbb 2y ago
  But usually easier than making it build locally.
  • patrickmay 2y ago
    And more easily repeatable. Plus, it avoids polluting the full environment.
• klibertp 2y ago
  In comparison to what? Making a chroot env for such a project is way harder than dockerizing it. VirtualBox and Vagrant might not be much harder, but are slower to the point of being irritating. I might be missing some alternatives, but among the approaches I tested, Docker is still the easiest way to build and run unfamiliar projects.
  • perlgeek 2y ago
    Not to mention, Vagrant projects just... seem to stop working, eventually? I've had this happen to me a few times, always for different reasons, always a huge time sink to debug. Did anybody else have the same experience?