is “consider standardising on a Docker container for building” a reasonable thing to ask of a person publishing an Open Source project which is by definition cross-compiled?

I feel like “hey, if you set up your cross compiler in a Dockerfile, it will mean that anyone can pull that down and contribute, no matter what OS and toolchains they have on their host system already” is reasonable, but?

a properly made Dockerfile creates reproducible builds, a lone Makefile and a list of un-versioned dependencies by name in a readme uh, doesn’t

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