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In a message of Wed, 02 Sep 2015 10:50:15 +1000, Chris Angelico writes:
>And compiled C programs are notoriously hard to distribute. Can you
>pick up a Guile binary and carry it to another computer? Do you have
>to absolutely perfectly match the libguile version, architecture,
>build settings, etc?

This is the problem that docker has set out to solve.  
https://www.docker.com/whatisdocker
I think it is pretty neat stuff, myself.

Laura