On Tue, 2017-05-02 at 09:54 -0400, Rémi Rampin wrote: > 2017-05-02 05:44 -0400, Ghislain Vaillant: > > Each tool is registered as a separate download on pip and are versioned > > separately. Based on that alone, I guess it makes more sense to provide > > separate source packages too. > > Hi, ReproZip author here. > > To give some context, the tools are packaged independently because > they have different requirements (in particular, reprozip only works > on Linux, but reprounzip works on other platforms where Docker and > Vagrant are available).
Do you mean Linux the kernel or the platform? The tracer would not work on a non-Linux kernel such as FreeBSD or the Hurd, am I right? > 2017-05-02 07:51 -0400, Holger Levsen: > > And you should very probably remove the word "Linux" from the short > > description, > > and maybe also s#reproducible#reproducing#… > > We don't actually use this description anywhere I could find. The > packages are collectively labelled as "Linux tool enabling > reproducible experiments". Let me know if I missed something. I guess Holger was trying to come up with a more accurate short description of the package. Since the tool itself targets reproducible experiments *on* Linux, but is not specific *to* Linux, what about "Tool for reproducing experiments on Linux"? Ghis