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<rekado_>upgraded salmon

<rekado_>it was not fun

<civodul>rekado_: i'm not sure what salmon does, but you have all my sympathy!

<civodul>i've been setting up https://guix.bordeaux.inria.fr/

<civodul>'guix deploy' and all were pretty fun

<civodul>... but the fancy jobsets i intended to build "don't work"

<rekado_>“guix deploy” is lovely

<rekado_>salmon and that whole fishy suite of software has improved compared to when I first packaged it, but there are still a lot of things that make the upgrade unusually complex.

<civodul>perhaps because it improves, in which case it's a good sign? :-)

<rekado_>generally it has matured a bit, but whenever there’s a burst of activity and new features are added the developers appear to fall back into bad habits

<rekado_>this habit of downloading code at configure time, for example

<rekado_>it’s not a good idea

<rekado_>also: CPU tuning (I only wanted SSE2, not something tuned to my CPU’s micro-architecture!)

<rekado_>or compiler feature tests that don’t actually work with GCC and crash the build…

<rekado_>all that CMakeLists.txt patching I had to perform in the past was one of the major deterrents to upgrading.

<rekado_>upgrading bioinfo software is often a very frustrating experience.

<rekado_>I’m always hoping for someone else to take care of it

<rekado_>sadly it doesn’t always work out like that :)

<civodul>CPU tuning and CMakeLists.txt

<civodul>two keywords of our dear HPC world

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