Reproducibility of Build Environments through Space and Time
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| author | Malka, Julien Zacchiroli, Stefano Zimmermann, Théo |
| author_facet | Malka, Julien Zacchiroli, Stefano Zimmermann, Théo |
| contents | Modern software engineering builds up on the composability of software components, that rely on more and more direct and transitive dependencies to build their functionalities. This principle of reusability however makes it harder to reproduce projects' build environments, even though reproducibility of build environments is essential for collaboration, maintenance and component lifetime. In this work, we argue that functional package managers provide the tooling to make build environments reproducible in space and time, and we produce a preliminary evaluation to justify this claim. Using historical data, we show that we are able to reproduce build environments of about 7 million Nix packages, and to rebuild 99.94% of the 14 thousand packages from a 6-year-old Nixpkgs revision. |
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| spellingShingle | Reproducibility of Build Environments through Space and Time Malka, Julien Zacchiroli, Stefano Zimmermann, Théo Software Engineering Modern software engineering builds up on the composability of software components, that rely on more and more direct and transitive dependencies to build their functionalities. This principle of reusability however makes it harder to reproduce projects' build environments, even though reproducibility of build environments is essential for collaboration, maintenance and component lifetime. In this work, we argue that functional package managers provide the tooling to make build environments reproducible in space and time, and we produce a preliminary evaluation to justify this claim. Using historical data, we show that we are able to reproduce build environments of about 7 million Nix packages, and to rebuild 99.94% of the 14 thousand packages from a 6-year-old Nixpkgs revision. |
| title | Reproducibility of Build Environments through Space and Time |
| topic | Software Engineering |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00424 |