Re: concurrent installation of different pkg versions
]] Don Armstrong
> On Sat, 26 Apr 2014, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > And simultaneous installation of multiple versions of packages is
> > simply a requirement for many research computing scenarios, usually
> > because there's a lot of bespoke scientific code that accomplishes
> > some specific goal but was not written to the standards one would
> > expect from professional programmers, and therefore doesn't easily
> > work with newer versions of libraries.
>
> 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 might also have success by using omnibus,
https://github.com/opscode/omnibus-ruby
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