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Reproducibility definition ? #1

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zimoun opened this issue Sep 29, 2022 · 3 comments · Fixed by #2
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Reproducibility definition ? #1

zimoun opened this issue Sep 29, 2022 · 3 comments · Fixed by #2

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zimoun commented Sep 29, 2022

Julia is not reproducible; several pre-compilation does not return the same .ji files. See these still open issues:

JuliaLang/julia#25900
JuliaLang/julia#34753

and AFAIK, there is not yet fully fixed.

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tpapp commented Sep 29, 2022

I think there is a misunderstanding here; "reproducible" in this context means whatever is reproducible with the source code, project, and manifest files. It should be understood that a lot of things aren't, but this package is mainly for posting simple examples.

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zimoun commented Sep 29, 2022

This is exactly my point. Today many people are using the term "reproducible" without providing a clear definition about what they speak about. For instance, in some community, reproducible means bit-to-bit as here https://reproducible-builds.org/. Other means roughly the same plot. Other differentiate reproducible vs replication; see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5778115/

Your package is named ReproducibleLiteratePage targeting scientific folk. Then it appears to me useful to explicitly write down what "reproducible" refers to. As you did in the comment. :-)

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tpapp commented Sep 29, 2022

Thanks for the clarification, I will address this.

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