]] Don Armstrong > On Sat, 26 Apr 2014, Russ Allbery wrote: > > And simultaneous installation of multiple versions of packages is > > simply a requirement for many research computing scenarios, usually > > because there's a lot of bespoke scientific code that accomplishes > > some specific goal but was not written to the standards one would > > expect from professional programmers, and therefore doesn't easily > > work with newer versions of libraries. > > The right way to handle this for research computing scenarios is to > deploy virtual machines with specific versions.... otherwise you're > constantly battling with trying to make sure that you're actually using > the version that you think you're using.
You might also have success by using omnibus, https://github.com/opscode/omnibus-ruby -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- 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/87ha5drcss....@xoog.err.no
