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Bug#861646: ITP: reprounzip -- Linux tools for reproducible experiments



On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 11:18:35AM +0100, Ghislain Vaillant wrote:
> > 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.
 
ah! I think something along the lines should be added to the description.

And you should very probably remove the word "Linux" from the short description,
and maybe also s#reproducible#reproducing#…

> 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.

/me nods.

Thanks for these clarifications!


-- 
cheers,
	Holger

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