[Plplot-devel] Testing with Docker

[Hazen B. <hba...@ma...>]

Going in a completely different direction from travis-ci.. I've been 
experimenting with Docker:

https://docs.docker.com/

Quoting the web-site "Docker provides a way to run applications securely 
isolated in a container, packaged with all its dependencies and libraries".

What this means for us is that we can test just about any linux distro 
with just about any set of libraries. For example, the attached will 
test the current SF PLplot with a very limited number of dependencies on 
the debian-latest distro. More interestingly, we can create images that 
have all the dependencies and PLplot loaded. Then for updated test 
results all that we'd have to do is pull the most recent version of 
PLplot, cmake, make and ctest.

So, thoughts about what 5 or so linux distros we want to be sure that 
PLplot works on?

-Hazen