[Bio-packaging] Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought

Ludovic Courtès ludo at gnu.org
Tue Feb 9 20:30:44 UTC 2016


Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus at mdc-berlin.de> skribis:

> I’d also like to point you at https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01161771/en, in
> case you haven’t read it yet.  It includes a very general comparison
> with tools like environment modules, spack, and easyBuild with a focus
> on reproducibility.

One of the things that has changed since this paper is the new --input
flag which allows you, from the command-line, to rewrite the dependency
tree of a package by replacing one package with another one (something
that’s relatively easy to do programmatically, but Spack showed that
it’s occasionally convenient to have it at the command line.)

Ludo’.



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