You ignore the handy-dandy source package management systems of many *nixes. Gentoo, Lunar Linux, and many more have excellent ways of watching where packages, tracking dependencies and versioning control. Obviously, if distro is not a choice than we have a problem.
Do what your professor wants. Why you ask? Because its your damn professor. He will be happier with a package management system that he feels comfortable with. This will make him happier with you. Do not trifle with the grey beards, they have powers you do not yet comprehend.
I, myself, am working with a professor on a momentum problem generator in Perl (we're physics people) and I was given a nice equation solving library that he wrote for another issue. I've showed it to a number a people with years (1 or 2 near a decade) of experience with Perl and they said that it was some of the worst code they had ever seen. I thought the way I had to interact with it was stupid and klunky. One giant kludge. I fought it in my own head but tried not to let my emotions about it out in front of him. So I worked at it again and again and you know what a few months later he, a peer of mine and I will be doing a seminar for our deptartment on it this April. The code wasn't as awful to work with as I thought (though to this day I wish it wasn't so klunky) and it worked. I just had to suck up my pride and get it done.
Don't argue with them. Make their lives easier and you get to see the grey beards happy side. May you have many publications in your future.
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For some apps, the gained speed is huge. A nice report on the speed gains has been written up. It's really remarkable.
You ignore the handy-dandy source package management systems of many *nixes. Gentoo, Lunar Linux, and many more have excellent ways of watching where packages, tracking dependencies and versioning control. Obviously, if distro is not a choice than we have a problem.
Do what your professor wants. Why you ask? Because its your damn professor. He will be happier with a package management system that he feels comfortable with. This will make him happier with you. Do not trifle with the grey beards, they have powers you do not yet comprehend.
I, myself, am working with a professor on a momentum problem generator in Perl (we're physics people) and I was given a nice equation solving library that he wrote for another issue. I've showed it to a number a people with years (1 or 2 near a decade) of experience with Perl and they said that it was some of the worst code they had ever seen. I thought the way I had to interact with it was stupid and klunky. One giant kludge. I fought it in my own head but tried not to let my emotions about it out in front of him. So I worked at it again and again and you know what a few months later he, a peer of mine and I will be doing a seminar for our deptartment on it this April. The code wasn't as awful to work with as I thought (though to this day I wish it wasn't so klunky) and it worked. I just had to suck up my pride and get it done.
Don't argue with them. Make their lives easier and you get to see the grey beards happy side. May you have many publications in your future.