[gmx-developers] could somebody fix the regressiontests package?

[Roland Schulz]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Mark Abraham <mark.j.abraham at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Szilárd Páll <szilard.pall at cbr.su.se>wrote:
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>>  On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Mark Abraham <mark.j.abraham at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>>  On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Szilárd Páll <szilard.pall at cbr.su.se>wrote:
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>>>>  On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Roland Schulz <roland at utk.edu> wrote:
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>>>>>  On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Szilárd Páll <
>>>>> szilard.pall at cbr.su.se> wrote:
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>>>>>>  Bump!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  I have not had time to figure out a solution. Does anybody have
>>>>>> suggestions on how to fix this?
>>>>>>
>>>>>  you simply upload a fixed version. I think the proper fix is that
>>>>> for the git version, git is used to download. It only makes sense to
>>>>> download a TGZ from http if the source is also a tar ball. But I was
>>>>> waiting for us to decide whether we will change regressiontests to a
>>>>> submodule before I change that.
>>>>>
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>>>>  I see. I would still like to have it fixed asap and would have done
>>>> it myself, but Mark suggested that one can not simply replace a file.
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>>>>>>  I have a serious concern: as nobody has noticed this except me, I
>>>>>> think people are simply running the regressiontests (while I do know that
>>>>>> many people are using the source from git). I tend to think this is a
>>>>>> problem of communication/documentation and we should try to improve on this
>>>>>> aspect. Not only that if the tests are not used it was a half-futile effort
>>>>>> to make them work, but knowing how fragile intrinsic-based kernels are, it
>>>>>> is also dangerous.
>>>>>>
>>>>>  According to https://code.google.com/p/gromacs/downloads/list the
>>>>> 4.6 was downloaded 328. I think this makes this useful. master was only
>>>>> downloaded 15 so it seems that my assumption that it is mostly useful to
>>>>> people with tar ball not git is mostly true.
>>>>>
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>>>>   In general, I don't think we should jump to conclusions just yet
>>>> because:
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>>>  I'm not sure what the conclusion is to which you might be objecting.
>>> Users have downloaded the tests, which is a good thing. We haven't had a
>>> forest of complaints about it, but we can't know whether that's a good or
>>> bad thing.
>>>
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>>  This one: "seems that my assumption that it is mostly useful to people
>> with tar ball not git is mostly true".
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>  People with the gromacs 4.6 tarball got the correctly-working
> regressiontests-4.6.tar.gz around 328 times. People with the post-4.6 git
> branch tried to get the broken regressiontests-master.tar.gz many fewer
> times. We don't know how many people with either did no testing. Shrug.
>

I think it would be very good if we had a download counter for the source
archives. Either by installing one on our server or using a service like
google code to provide the download storage for the source. I would find it
very interesting to see how many downloaded the code.


Roland

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