It's interesting. It's like a virtual machine, but maybe smaller than it.
On Sunday, October 25, 2015 at 12:23:24 AM UTC+2, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > > ReproZip is a pretty awesome language-agnostic tool for easy > reproducibility: > > https://vida-nyu.github.io/reprozip/ > > On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Tamas Papp <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 23 2015, Kris De Meyer <[email protected] <javascript:>> >> wrote: >> >> > I know that all of these problems are solvable, but that's not the >> point I >> > am trying to make. All of these issues take time that keep me away from >> > writing the software that I am hired to write in a limited number of >> days, >> > and my employers may not be interested in the reasons for why I can't >> get >> > it to work on time. Please also note that when in the midst of a crisis >> and >> > up against deadlines, I (and probably other users in similar situations) >> > may not have time to file bug reports, and not even have the time to >> note >> > down how I fixed or circumvented a certain problem. >> >> If your project is time critical and you absolutely cannot deal with any >> breakage, just make a snapshot of everything as is and don't upgrade >> anything until you are sure you have time to deal with bugs. If you need >> to upgrade (eg because a bug fix just came out which you need), use >> version control carefully so you can roll back to the previous state, or >> backport the fix if necessary. >> >> Some languages have developed special tools for this --- eg for R, check >> out Packrat: https://rstudio.github.io/packrat/ I am not aware of >> anything similar for Julia, so you may have to do that manually. >> >> If you cannot implement any of the solutions above for some reason, you >> may just have to accept that languages/environments under development >> and critical projects just don't mix. >> >> Also, there is little point in telling people you don't have time to >> file bug reports or make your workarounds known when using an open >> source project. Open source projects thrive on user contributions (bug >> reports count too), and that's pretty much the only way to make things >> move forward. >> >> Best, >> >> Tamas >> > >
