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authorMohammad Akhlaghi <mohammad@akhlaghi.org>2021-06-08 19:02:47 +0100
committerMohammad Akhlaghi <mohammad@akhlaghi.org>2021-06-08 19:11:11 +0100
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Minor edits and updated first-page Software Heritage ID
After going through Boud's corrections and edits in the previous commit, I thought some minor clarifications would be necessary, and they are implemented in this commit. Also, in preparation for submission to the journal, the top-level software heritage ID has been corrected to the latest commit on Software Heritage.
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@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ It is possible to include the build instructions of the software used within the
For the data, it is similarly not possible to extract which data server they came from.
Hence two projects that each use a 1-terabyte dataset will need a full copy of that same 1-terabyte file in their bundle, making long-term preservation extremely expensive.
Such files can be excluded from the bundle through modifications in the configuration file.
-However, this will add complexity if a higher-level script is written above ReproZip to make sure that the data and bundle are used together or to check the integrity of the data.
+However, this will add complexity: a higher-level script will be necessary with the ReproZip bundle, to make sure that the data and bundle are used together, or to check the integrity of the data (in case it may have changed).
Finally, because it is only a snapshot of one moment in a project's history, preserving the connection between the ReproZip'd bundles of various points in a project's history is likely to be difficult (for example, when software or data are updated, or when analysis methods are modified).
In other words, a ReproZip user will have to personally define an archival method to preserve the various black boxes of the project as it evolves, and tracking what has changed between the versions is not trivial.