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Add another backend to run containers through Podman [1]. This is another backend that is very much similar to the Docker backend, in that the command to start the container process (`podman run`) is identical to the command one would use with Docker. Therefore, as for the Apple Container backend, this backend is reusing the logic from the Docker backend to build the command line. Still, even though calling the `odk_backend_docker_build_command()` function avoids duplicating most of the code, there is still a sizeable amount of almost "boilerplate" code that is duplicated between the Docker, Apple Container, and Podman backends. This is still fine for now, but one or two more backends like that and we should seriously consider refactoring the whole backend system to account for the fact that several backends are in fact almost identical. [1] https://podman.io/
It seems that Podman does not support binding a socket from the host into the container. I have no time to investigate that for now, so we'll just skip SSH socket forwarding on Podman for the time being. (That is not a big loss. In fact, I am not sure anyone except me has ever used the SSH socket forwarding feature of odkrun.)
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Add another backend to run containers through Podman [1].
This is another backend that is very much similar to the Docker backend, in that the command to start the container process (
podman run) is identical to the command one would use with Docker. Therefore, as for the Apple Container backend, this backend is reusing the logic from the Docker backend to build the command line.Still, even though calling the
odk_backend_docker_build_command()function avoids duplicating most of the code, there is still a sizeable amount of almost "boilerplate" code that is duplicated between the Docker, Apple Container, and Podman backends. This is still fine for now, but one or two more backends like that and we should seriously consider refactoring the whole backend system to account for the fact that several backends are in fact almost identical.[1] https://podman.io/