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* Making the case for GNU Guix ... advice sought
@ 2016-02-08 19:43 Cook, Malcolm
  2016-02-09 15:03 ` Ricardo Wurmus
  2016-02-09 20:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 16+ messages in thread
From: Cook, Malcolm @ 2016-02-08 19:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 'Guix-devel',
	'bio-packaging@mailman.open-bio.org'

Hi,

I have been asked to write up an argument for the advantages that GNU Guix confers for deploying linux software, especially scientific computing and including bioinformatics software.
	
To that end I have written up this document 

	https://github.com/malcook/sce/blob/master/MakingTheCase.org

and I welcome all criticism, suggestions, observations, omissions, flames, what-have-you.    Please feel free to discuss in this thread, via private email, pull requests, as you see fit.   

I hope to incorporate the "good parts" of this discussion back into the document and welcome anyone to use as they see fit (that would be a nice outcome!).

I have some notes contrasting GNU Guix with other similar/related tool-sets (modules, lmod, homebrew, spack, easyBuild, rolling rpms), as well as our current practices (sort of hybrid of rpms, bastard son of homebrew, and "just wedge it in there").  However I am not now intent upon setting up such a contrast, rather, I hope to focus on the advantages of GNU Guix in general.

Some of my comments may be naïve/mis-informed as my experience with guix so far has been small personal testing deployments, and I have not worked out all the details of deploying " Using a shared Guix store" as discussed here: http://guix-devel.gnu.narkive.com/tk2nRunF/using-a-shared-guix-store-was-re-bio-packaging-testing-out-guix - about which I also welcome further comments, suggestions, and/or warnings.

Thanks,

Malcolm Cook
 

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2016-02-09 15:03 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-02-09 19:54   ` Leo Famulari
2016-02-09 20:27     ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-09 20:30   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-18 23:29   ` Cook, Malcolm
2016-02-19 10:10     ` Pjotr Prins
2016-02-19 15:06       ` Cook, Malcolm
2016-02-28 13:52     ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-28 14:42     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-02-29 16:55       ` Cook, Malcolm
2016-02-29 17:10         ` Cook, Malcolm
2016-03-01 21:22           ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-09 20:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-10 16:01   ` Cook, Malcolm
2016-02-18 23:26     ` Cook, Malcolm

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