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Why does repo2docker need to exist? Why not use tool like source2image?
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The Jupyter community believes strongly in building on top of pre-existing tools whenever
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possible (this is why repo2docker buildpacks largely build off of patterns that already
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exist in the data analytics community). We try to perform due-diligence and search for
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other communities to leverage and help, but sometimes it makes the most sense to build
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our own new tool. In the case of repo2docker, we spent time integrating with a pre-existing
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tool called [source2image](https://github.com/openshift/source-to-image).
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This is an excellent open tool for containerization, but we
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ultimately decided that it did not fit the use-case we wanted to address. For more information,
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[here's a short blog post about the decision and the reasoning behind it](https://github.com/yuvipanda/words/blob/fd096dd49d87e624acd8bdf6d13c0cecb930bb3f/content/post/why-not-s2i.md).

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