Re: official Emacs Docker image

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>> The final "image" as they call it will be an Emacs binary, built on that
>> base, that users can download and directly run from any of the major
>> operating systems (Mac OS X, Windows, any flavor of GNU/Linux).

> At this point, I am confused, because the statements seem to conflict.

> Would the "Docker image" of Emacs _include_ the base system? Or would it be
> an executable Emacs package that could be installed straight _on top of_
> that base system?

I see now that I was unclear: A Docker image is a self-contained tarball
containing a GNU/Linux kernel, necessary system software, and the final Emacs
executable that was built by the image recipe.

The Docker image contents, thus, can be entirely free software. Executing the
image on some platforms (such as Windows) may use proprietary software to
perform the execution (for example, VM provisioning software).

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