On 9 Jul 2008, at 7:42 am, Andreas Tille wrote:
On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Tim Cutts wrote:
In principle, I'm more than happy to help out, but as with
everything else, my time is limited. ...
Sure - we talked about this at DebConf last year and I also remember
the
reasons you mentioned why you are not using packaged versions. It
would
be stupid if I would try to argue about your workflow at Sanger
which has
proven to be reasonable. (I'm probably biased but I think that
providing
software in packages and enabling users to pin on a certain version
leads
do better reproducable results than local builds.)
That only works if users have their own machines. Most of our
bioinformatics goes on a couple of very large shared clusters, so
pinning doesn't work. I agree with you in principle, which is why I
do package stuff when I can (for example, I package some of the perl
modules we need, such as AcePerl, because the version required doesn't
change much)
Tim
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