A little late to the party... but has there been any thought to using Git submodules to help with version dependencies between packages?
I know that Git submodules often have a bad reputation... but the project I run (MOOSE: http://mooseframework.org ) has been using them for exactly this purpose for a few years now and it's been working very well. Just tossing it out there ;-) Derek On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 6:26 PM Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimi...@club.fr> wrote: > Le vendredi 28 octobre 2016 à 00:24 -0700, Kevin Kunzmann a écrit : > > Hey, > > > > I was just wondering whether Julia has a checkpoint-like > > functionality (R checkpoint-package) for using a specific checkpoint > > of the package ecosystem. With quick development happening this would > > improve reproducibility drastically. > FWIW, this is one of the main features planned for the next version of > the package management system (codenamed Pkg3). These would be called > "environments". > > > Regards >