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Re: concurrent installation of different pkg versions



Le dimanche 27 avril 2014 à 17:16 -0700, Don Armstrong a écrit :
> The right way to handle this for research computing scenarios is to
> deploy virtual machines with specific versions.... otherwise you're
> constantly battling with trying to make sure that you're actually using
> the version that you think you're using.

You don’t have to go that far. We’re having good results with specific
deb packages installing the application with all non-system libraries
in /opt/package/version.

> The quality of almost every single piece of scientific code I've ever
> worked with is so appalling that I'm always amazed when any of it
> produces any useful results, ever. And lets not even talk about whether
> the results it produces are accurate or reproducible...

Amen to that.

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