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Oh, tell me about it! I’ve spent this week trying to reproduce the results of a paper from 2019. Out of the box, the referenced sources doesn’t even compile or
by zegl 4y ago
Oh, tell me about it! I’ve spent this week trying to reproduce the results of a paper from 2019.
Out of the box, the referenced sources doesn’t even compile or run. I’ve been fighting random Python/Java/Scala dependencies, using whatever version was the “latest” at time of publishing usually works, unless of course, it doesn’t support M1…
- tlavoie 4y agoI'm curious how things like Nix will help with this in the future, especially as the platform matures. I took a bit of time a little while back to convert a wee app of mine to using Nix flakes to build, specifically because I was getting bitten by API changes in a key dependency. Once I nailed down the configuration to include the version(s) that worked with my original code... it worked. Took a while that first time, but got it done, and now it should be defined in a way that stays robust.