Hi Luigi, That sounds like a very interesting thesis and nix should do very well according to your criteria. I had a quick look at some of the failures and suspect they could be easily solved, e.g. bfast can't find bzlib.h but adding bzip2 to the build inputs should fix that. I'm sure we could fix the rest of the issues too, and it would be nice to have the extra packages in nixpkgs since you've already done to work to package and test them. It would be great if you could open a pull request with the working packages, and then also ask for help with the problematic ones individually. I hope that's not too much effort. If you want to quickly work through the issues it might be best to ask on the IRC channel #nixos on freenode.
Good luck! Cillian On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Luigi Viscardi < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am Luigi Viscardi I am developing a degree thesis in Computer Science at > the University of Milan. > At this link you can see the thesis proposal, carried out under the > project "Cloudbiolinux" > > *https://groups.google.com/d/msg/cloudbiolinux/xpEWSS6iC54/4qSt30UB56oJ > <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/cloudbiolinux/xpEWSS6iC54/4qSt30UB56oJ> * > > A part of this work is to compare different solutions to the problems of > "versioning" and "reproducibility". > To do this, I did some testing with the package "nixpkgs" and others in > the "nixos" environment, > to understand how they work and what are their potential. > Some of these tests have been completed successfully, but some others have > failed. > > On the attachment you can see the tests, the results and some comments. > Could you give me a help to try to solve the problems occurring? > > Thanks for any suggestions, > Luigi Viscardi > > > > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > >
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