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prezto docker container
This branch contains a Dockerfile and a Makefile that hopefully may prove helpful for prezto development.
The idea is to have a totally independendn and isolated environemnet in which to quickly make changes to either prezto-core or any plugin that may bein development, enabling automated testing and even continuous integration.
The container is a basic install of alpine linux, so the image download is reasonably small
On the container we have a few utilities and additionalsoftware that prezto has core support for
you can check it out in a snap by doing:
docker pull hlecuanda/prezto-dev:latest
once you have the image, create a container from it with:
docker run -it --rm -h prezto hlecuanda/prezto-dev:latest
that will set you on a prompt withing the container with a vanilla install of prezto.
a development and testing run can be achieved by mounting the stuff you're working on to the image's filesystem:
docker run -it --rm -h prezto
-v /local/path:/home/prezto
-v /local/path/zdotdir:/home/preztoa
-v /local/module-dev-src:/home/prezto/.zprezto/modules/yourmodulea
hlecuanda/prezto-dev:latest
the third volume mapping is particularly interesting. you can develop on your own machine and environnmen, and when spinning up the container, your actual source is already in-plase asif installed on a vanilla prezto install.
keep in mind that the container are ephemeral, unless you remove the --rm option which will create new containers each time you run the command, but the changes to the filesystemwill persist on a container file that you can later spin up again to re use.
I have found epehermeral containers to be most useful since you get an untainted, pristine environment for testing every time you spin up the container.