From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: DAT Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 10:21:22 +0200 Message-ID: <87h9co6zjx.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42937) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bEuSX-0000C4-S8 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2016 04:21:30 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bEuSU-0002RX-KR for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2016 04:21:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: (catonano@gmail.com's message of "Sat, 18 Jun 2016 15:23:00 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Catonano Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi, Catonano skribis: > They are part of a pipeline and they should be versioned too. And sometim= es > a pipeline produces a dataset. So there could be packages producing > packages. > > There's this project, DAT, and it seems they are onto something, in this > domain. > > http://dat-data.com/ >From a quick look it seems to me that DAT is primarily focusing on efficient peer-to-peer data distribution, at least in its current form. In that sense, I would say that DAT and Guix would be complementary rather than overlapping in a reproducible science toolbox: Guix could be used to described data sources, build processes, and pipelines, while DAT would take care of retrieving data sets (DAT data sets could be described using =E2=80=98origin=E2=80=99 in Guix.) Thanks for sharing! Ludo=E2=80=99.