Add developer containers config #11
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Split up the definition and the declaration of the IRImager class.
Add a basic [Development Containers](https://containers.dev/) config that builds an Ubuntu 20.04 environment, and installs pdm and libirimager 4.4.1. This is non-trivial, since libirimager has a broken postinstall script, that has to be manually removed to get everything working properly.
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| # update the virtualenv with the latest version of pip that has been installed, required for PEP 621 support | ||
| RUN virtualenv --upgrade-embed-wheels |
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FYI, apparently Python does this automatically, but only around once-a-week (which is the reason why you've probably never done it on your own laptop), so we have to manually force it to run if we want to use the latest pip features immediately.
Yah, it does make creating a development environment much easier :) It's probably overkill for most JavaScript or Python projects, but for C/C++ stuff where the dependencies are weird, it does seem helpful. GitHub Codespaces is a pretty cool concept, but it's very very expensive: if I want something similar to my personal 16-core PC, it's $1.50 per hour for a 16-core machine. But, the CPU cores they have on GitHub Codespaces/GitHub Actions aren't great, and they tend to be very very old CPUs, so I might not even get the same level of performance if I go for a 32-core machine!! So imagine like $500 a month per full-time worker!! |
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.cppfile out of.hpp#9Add a basic Development Containers config that builds an Ubuntu 20.04 environment, and installs
pdmandlibirimager4.1.1.This is non-trivial, since
libirimagerhas a broken postinstall script,that has to be manually removed to get everything working properly.Once this is merged, we should be able to open up a development environment in GitHub Codespaces:
FYI, @AshleySetter, to review this, I recommend following the guide in https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/devcontainers/containers, by installing https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers.
(hint, set
{"dev.containers.dockerPath": "podman", "dev.containers.dockerComposePath": "podman-compose"}in your VS Code settings so that you can use the superiorpodmaninstead ofdocker.)