Bug#861646: ITP: reprounzip -- Linux tools for reproducible experiments
On Tue, 2017-05-02 at 10:07 +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 11:04:48AM +0100, Ghislain Vaillant wrote:
> > In a nutshell, take a scientific experiment (data + processing
> > pipeline), create a single archive out of it (packing step), and enable
> > a different machine to reproduce the experiment (unpacking step).
>
> and how is it different from zip? (or tar|gzip)
>
> those can also be used to (un)pack reproducible archives…
The unpacking step includes fetching the necessary dependencies, and
spawning a run of the experiment (locally, or on Vagrant / Docker)
automatically.
It's a step forward compared to providing a tar with code and data +
custom deployment script, which researchers are usually quite terrible
at writing.
Ghis
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