On 27-02-2025 19:32, Nilesh Patra wrote:
No words of wisdom, as such, but a question:
Since singularity is very close to apptainer, do
you think your energy could be better spent in maintaining
singularity-container instead
and trying to release that to stable instead of packaging apptainer?
OTOH, If we are going ahead with apptainer anyway, maybe it makes sense to -rm
singularity?
It's a fair question. AFAIK the two projects have gone separate ways in
terms of how they are maintained and governed. I am not sure how close
they still are, or if there is an active effort to incorporate patches
in one direction or another, or both.
If they are very similar indeed, then the packaging could also be very
similar, so the additional packaging effort could be small. If they are
very divergent, then there may actually be a case for having both.
The reason I would focus on apptainer is that it is the software that is
mostly used in the high throughput computing community I am in. But
taking a look at both projects is probably a good idea.
