[Question] Simplify? about deno_docker

[ebebbington]

Also FYI turns out the debian-stable-slim image is 69MB on my machine, so really 0 difference at all

[ebebbington]

@hayd i'm not too familiar to installing it through GH, but though through deno.land is official right? I assume you have to change the permissions on the file due to installing it through GH? Which is something not needed when installing through deno.land

[hayd]

I just mean, that deno.land uses GH behind the scenes. It's a good point that it is official. 🤔

[ebebbington]

Of course it's entirely up to you

If you are against any ideas then feel free to close this issue 👍 I'll leave it open if you wanted to discuss it more or it might be a good idea for the future or something

[hayd]

I think the reason to keep the current way is it is explicit (in a single RUN step):

• install curl and unzip
• curl the file from GH
• unzip
• uninstall curl and unzip

deno install essentially does the same thing (the curl and unzip), but it's obscured.

I'm not really convinced that using deno install is any simpler! 🤷

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BTW In your example above you do the curl/unzip install in a previous step, this bloats the image a little (though those are both small), I think what the docker file should do is install deno only (and set ENV variables) no other libs that aren't required for deno to run.

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That said, very happy to add slim (I thought the current debian image was slim, but it is tied to a specific tag).

Can you open another issue for the ARGS concern? I am not sure I grok the issue but it sounds important/useful to fix. (and seems independent of using deno install in the dockerfile)

[ebebbington]

I'm not really convinced that using deno install is any simpler! 🤷

Fair enough :)

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To be honest, i'm not sure the size of debian-slim compared to the one you use (i only assume it's smaller), but there might not even be much difference in size

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FYI Made the issue for the args: #88