On 01/28/2015 03:39 PM, Jason Riedy wrote:
But the growing quantity of crap software from a system level that produces useful science results can be supported without the current levels of pain.
This cannot be overstated. Even (or perhaps, ESPECIALLY) in CS there is an egregious amount of absolutely broken programs out there that only compile on such and such a set of compilers/libraries/etc. The use of these becomes habit amongst research groups and all the sudden IT shops can't upgrade above CENTOS 5 because the advisor with the big grants doesn't want to break usability with some piece of garbage code-slop that some PhD many moons ago put together thinking he or she would be the only one ever using it. Then other researchers who actually want to use toolchains newer than 10 years old are on the other side of that drawing and quartering of the IT staff.
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