RFC: use Nickel to generate Dockerfiles#181
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In principle I don't have objections.
I must admin I'm not familiar with nickel and in general expect that fewer people will be familiar with it than with haskell/yaml, I trust folks from Tweag develop technically robust implementation of a configuration language.
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This replaces Haskell-based generator with a set of files in Nickel.
Pros:
Cons: another programming language, albeit small & simple.