[brudgers]

No. I was comparing the requirements against my ability to imagine messy details. I suppose Docker jumped out as a different level of abstraction relative to the general problems of scientific reproducibility; the diversity of scientific investigations; and the existing social and physical infrastructure of scientific laboratories.

I suppose the sort of messy detail I might imagine is how does a Matlab license work in terms of multiple containers. And the details are messy because of legal and institutional constraints in the markets I suspect are looking for this solution.

[alantrrs]

Yes, MATLAB is a special case due to it being licensed software. I've used it in the past by mounting my local MATLAB installation into the container and I think I had to pass the MAC too. I believe we'll be able to get it to the point where we only need to mount the local license.

We're building a client on top of docker to deal with all this extra functionality. You can think about it like a specialized version of docker-compose