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Containers with no "latest" #80

Closed slagelwa closed 3 years ago

slagelwa commented 6 years ago

I was wondering what the policy/recommended practices are regarding providing "latest" tagged containers. I noticed that it seems most containers do provide a "latest" but just ran into one that didn't. I didn't see anything in the documentation or best practices that addressed how to manage "latest", but maybe I missed it.

ypriverol commented 6 years ago

@slagelwa This is one of the open topics in BioContainers. As you said some of the containers right now provides the latest tag but other (all mulled containers) not. This will be discussed next month in the BioContainers Hackathon in Paris. Some of the ongoing discussions:

+1 As you know latest enables to download the latest version of the container without needs to specify the actual version. Is what many users use and similar to a symbolic link. However...

-1 Latest is really bad practices for reproducibility, because the latest today is not the same version in two months, making difficult to reproduce the original results which is one of the goals of BioContainers.

BTW you are still on time to register in the Hackathon.

ypriverol commented 6 years ago

We will not have the latest version anymore for any container. Everything should contain a version and it should be the API/ Commandline tool that finds the tool/image/container.

prvst commented 6 years ago

I'll try to update our Docker cloud images ASAP. I hope this doesnt cause any harm to docker search

slagelwa commented 6 years ago

Seems like a very good idea.

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We will not have the latest version anymore for any container. Everything should contain a version and it should be the API/ Commandline tool that finds the tool/image/container.

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