On Wed, 19 Mar 2014, Diane Trout wrote: > > I think the more effort we spent in autopkgtest suites the more we will > > be able to come closer to reproducibility. I hope that this effort will > > be rewarded by such projects who for whatever reason do not (yet) trust > > our work.
> There's also the issue of upgrades changing your environment. > We've had issues with newer versions of cufflinks and tophat introducing new > bugs. and possibly fixing some of the existing ones ;) > As a result the scientists our group tend to want to have consistent > versions installed. this project of Michael Hanke could be of interest for you if you are keen to join: https://testkraut.readthedocs.org The idea is to make it easy to create regression tests of arbitrary (user) processing pipelines. I bet he would welcome contributions! > I'm not sure if there's a good way of having multiple versions of a debian > package available on a single system. Theoretically it is possible and done for some packages. But in general it is too much burden and all boils down to man power. -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko, Ph.D. http://neuro.debian.net http://www.pymvpa.org http://www.fail2ban.org Senior Research Associate, Psychological and Brain Sciences Dept. Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
