search

joeferner / node-oracle

node.js driver to connect with an oracle database.
MIT License
271 stars 99 forks source link

Pre-packaged working environment (e.g. Docker container) #124

Open rayshan opened 10 years ago

rayshan commented 10 years ago

Hi, thanks for all the hard work on this. Like many others, I struggled to get the module up and running on Ubuntu Server 13.10 64bit with Oracle 11g and node v0.10.x, both via npm and building from source.

Instead of supporting all the different environments separately, would it be more efficient to prepackage working environment in Docker containers and publish it on Docker index? That way contributors can focus on improvements.

FYI http://www.docker.io/ "Docker ... easily create lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers from any application. The same container that a developer builds and tests on a laptop can run at scale, in production, on VMs, bare metal, OpenStack clusters, public clouds and more."

Basically is an imaged diff of desired environment from the baseline stock ubuntu image. Very fast, small and portable.

Caveat is that this would be Linux-specific.

thomas-silva commented 10 years ago

I agree, having a Docker image would greatly simplify "getting started".