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by gnat 319 days ago
> It tracks operating system calls and creates a package that contains all the binaries, files and dependencies required to run a given command on the author's computational environment (packing step). A reviewer can then extract the experiment in his environment to reproduce the results (unpacking step).

Vagrant and Docker behind the scenes. Very cool, and a welcome step up from a tarball.