<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Frank Loeffler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:knarf@cct.lsu.edu" target="_blank">knarf@cct.lsu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 09:16:01PM +0100, Ian Hinder wrote:<br>
> • The configuration.ccl file of the thorn would have a field for the URL of a tarball to download<br>
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</div>The name of the tarball which is to be downloaded probably should<br>
contain something like a version of the library. This means that if a<br>
thorn gets updated (because of an updated version for example), old<br>
checkouts of the thorn would still try to access the old version - which<br>
means we would need to keep it around forever. Do we want this? This is<br>
not a rhetorical question, the answer might as well be "yes".</blockquote><div><br></div><div>In my opinion, the answer is "yes" since otherwise it would be impossible to guarantee reproducibility. </div>
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