On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 08:50:38PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Containers would be a better environment, but you have to make them very, > very simple to set up.
You mean like something imaginary command like create_my_vm <package>-<version>-<debversion> creating a virtual machine and installs <package> with the specified version from snapshots.debian.org and all its dependencies available at the time when this package version was uploaded? > > The quality of almost every single piece of scientific code I've ever > > worked with is so appalling that I'm always amazed when any of it > > produces any useful results, ever. And lets not even talk about whether > > the results it produces are accurate or reproducible... > > Well, yes. It's a ton of code written by people who aren't really > programmers and who have lots of other things they care more about than > becoming better programmers. +1 Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140428062925.gc8...@an3as.eu