[Expo-tech] Snakemake

[Wookey]

On 2019-07-31 14:18 +0100, Philip Sargent (Gmail) wrote:
> Sam, Wookey,
> 
> for wrangling the Django and all the other bits, do we / should we use
> something like this ?
> 
> https://snakemake.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

It's not clear to me how that does anything make doesn't already
do. Which we already have, and various rules for input and ouput
files/documents. I'm fine with doing more things with make and keeping
reasonably independent pieces nicely separate and file-based, but I'm
not sure the youth agree - they want databases, shiny logins and no
version control.

I don't see what the point of replacing standard make with snakemake
is, but perhaps I'm missing something. It is at least available in
debian/ubuntu so it's easy to try. Ultimately whoever is doing the
work can do whatever they like, but each new tool adds a comprehension
overhead. Is this one worth it?

Personally this year I plan to spend as little time as possible on the
system, and only fix the data, which is now in a much worse state than
the system.

Wookey
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