[mroche]

You’re giving me flashbacks! I spent a year as an admin on an HPC cluster at my university building tools/software and helping researchers get their projects running and re-lead the implementation of container usage. The amount of scientific code/projects that required libraries/files to be in specific locations, or assumed that everything was being run from a home directory, or sourced shell scripts at run time (that would break in containers) was staggering. A lot of stuff had the clear “this worked on my system so...” vibe about it.

As an admin it was quite frustrating, but I understand it sometimes when you know the person/project isn’t tested in a distributed environment. But when it’s the projects that do know how they’re used and still do those things...