[Bio-packaging] testing out guix

[Ben Woodcroft]

On 10/06/15 16:43, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> pjotr.public66 at thebird.nl writes:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 09:45:23AM +1000, Ben Woodcroft wrote:
>>> Good. But the question of versions is I think more fundamental than
>>> the fact sometime software X requires an old version of software Y.
>>> Perhaps I care about this more than I should, but sometimes I prefer
>>> to use old versions for the sake of scientific control - if I used
>>> version 1 on sample A last year and now I want to analyse sample B
>>> but only the newer version 2 is installed, then I'm stuck. Sometimes
>>> older software is better, even if it is buggier and provides no
>>> extra features.
> (I seem to be missing the original message containing this quote, so
> please excuse my double quoting.)
>
> Ludovic and I wrote a paper about reproducible HPC environments with
> Guix, which addresses these concerns and contains even a couple of
> Scheme snippets that show how the dependency graph can be manipulated
> to, say, replace all instances of an input with another all the way down
> the dependency graph.
>
> The final draft still under review for Reppar 2015.  Notification is in
> 20 days or so, at which point I'll be posting a link here.
I'm all ears, certainly agree modules have their problems. Thanks.