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use some existing build tool to build the packages #2

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bcdarwin opened this issue Sep 29, 2022 · 0 comments
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use some existing build tool to build the packages #2

bcdarwin opened this issue Sep 29, 2022 · 0 comments

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bcdarwin commented Sep 29, 2022

Currently everything in the container is built 'by hand', i.e. via manual git clone/wget/curl; make; etc., which doesn't make much sense:

  • no build caching (this is also a huge waste of developer time in the event of build failure)
  • good compiler flags aren't automatically set
  • limited testing (have to enable manually)

It seems like a general solution is to use an existing package manager to build all the packages. Some candidates: Spack (already in use at MICe), EasyBuild, Nix/Guix (lack many needed packages so they'd still need to be installed on top) or distribution package managers (e.g. NeuroDebian, Gentoo Science overlay). We could also consider starting from a NeuroDocker container (although there are some issues e.g. ants needs to be configured to build with MINC, the MINC toolkit version needs updating upstream, etc.)

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