Create a slim image without osx/windows toolchains
moul opened this issue · comments
While I was fiddling with #7 it came to me, that the right would be creating a specific box for different targets. No package clashes that way. Would mean more maintenance. Just throwing in the idea.
I think this guy is on the right track. Hadn't had the chance to try his images yet. Nah, scratch that, half-assed fork.
Yes, this is clearly something to think!
When I created this image, I was building my binaries using different tools with different APIs, results, outputs, and I needed to maintain my build tools and monitor new breaking releases for each methods.
So, I decided to build a unique tool that can handle everything with the same API; I'm quite satisfied today about the way we can use this image with only one environment variable to change.
This image definitely needs to stay as a single big image; but I think a smaller image with only the Linux triples (about 60-70% smaller than the current image) may be useful.
For now I will close this issue and wait for someone to "wake up" this thread if the size become a real problem, so we can keep the repository simple and concentrate on real problems :)
Note that this would not be at the forefront of my todo's, however I usually end up porting all of my containers over to Alpine linux at some point. I have made a note to ping-back if I am so motivated :)