google/caliban

Feature request: support REES

arokem opened this issue · 1 comments

arokem commented

REES is the specification supported by repo2docker. It would be great to support that. In particular, as I understand it (but correct me if I am wrong), caliban currently supports dependencies specified in a requirements.txt file. REES expands this to support dependencies in a number of other formats, including conda environment.yml files and even Dockerfiles. Implementing this would increase the range of things users could do with the software.

sritchie commented

This is really interesting. I didn't know about REES.

We actually DO now support environment.yaml; if you add one to your repo you'll get that environment installed. That needs a documentation update.

I didn't know about the Dockerfile ability. I wonder what that would do. This is a great tip. I'll look into this and keep notes here on the issue.

Thanks, @arokem !