Reproducible source for XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Copyright (C) 2018-2020 Mohammad Akhlaghi mohammad@akhlaghi.org
See the end of the file for license conditions.

This is the reproducible project source for the paper titled "XXX XXXXX XXXXXX", by XXXXX XXXXXX, YYYYYY YYYYY and ZZZZZZ ZZZZZ that is published in XXXXX XXXXX.

To reproduce the results and final paper, the only dependency is a minimal Unix-based building environment including a C and C++ compiler (already available on your system if you have ever built and installed a software from source) and a downloader (Wget or cURL). Note that Git is not mandatory: if you don't have Git to run the first command below, go to the URL given in the command on your browser, and download the project's source (there is a button to download a compressed tarball of the project). If you have received this source from arXiv or Zenodo (without any .git directory inside), please see the "Building project tarball" section below.

$ git clone XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
$ cd XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
$ ./project configure
$ ./project make

This paper is made reproducible using Maneage (MANaging data linEAGE). To learn more about its purpose, principles and technicalities, please see README-hacking.md, or the Maneage webpage at https://maneage.org.

Building the project

This project was designed to have as few dependencies as possible without requiring root/administrator permissions.

1. Necessary dependencies:

   1.1: Minimal software building tools like C compiler, Make, and other tools found on any Unix-like operating system (GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS, and others). All necessary dependencies will be built from source (for use only within this project) by the ./project configure script (next step).

   1.2: (OPTIONAL) Tarball of dependencies. If they are already present (in a directory given at configuration time), they will be used. Otherwise, a downloader (wget or curl) will be necessary to download any necessary tarball. The necessary tarballs are also collected in the archived project on https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.XXXXXXX. Just unpack that tarball and you should see all the tarballs of this project's software. When ./project configure asks for the "software tarball directory", give the address of the unpacked directory that has all the tarballs. [[TO AUTHORS: UPLOAD THE SOFTWARE TARBALLS WITH YOUR DATA AND PROJECT SOURCE TO ZENODO OR OTHER SIMILAR SERVICES. THEN ADD THE DOI/LINK HERE. DON'T FORGET THAT THE SOFTWARE ARE A CRITICAL PART OF YOUR WORK'S REPRODUCIBILITY.]]

2. Configure the environment (top-level directories in particular) and build all the necessary software for use in the next step. It is recommended to set directories outside the current directory. Please read the description of each necessary input clearly and set the best value. Note that the configure script also downloads, builds and locally installs (only for this project, no root privileges necessary) many programs (project dependencies). So it may take a while to complete.

   $ ./project configure
   

3. Run the following command to reproduce all the analysis and build the final paper.pdf on 8 threads. If your CPU has a different number of threads, change the number (you can see the number of threads available to your operating system by running ./.local/bin/nproc)

   $ ./project make -j8
   

Building project tarball (possibly from arXiv)

If the paper is also published on arXiv, it is highly likely that the authors also uploaded/published the full project there along with the LaTeX sources. If you have downloaded (or plan to download) this source from arXiv, some minor extra steps are necessary as listed below. This is because this tarball is mainly tailored to automatic creation of the final PDF without using Maneage (only calling LaTeX, not using the './project' command)!

You can directly run 'latex' on this directory and the paper will be built with no analysis (all necessary built products are already included in the tarball). One important feature of the tarball is that it has an extra Makefile to allow easy building of the PDF paper without worring about the exact LaTeX and bibliography software commands.

Only building PDF using tarball (no analysis)

1. If you got the tarball from arXiv and the arXiv code for the paper is 1234.56789, then the downloaded source will be called 1234.56789 (no suffix). However, it is actually a .tar.gz file. So take these steps to unpack it to see its contents.

   $ arxiv=1234.56789
   $ mv $arxiv $arxiv.tar.gz
   $ mkdir $arxiv
   $ cd $arxiv
   $ tar xf ../$arxiv.tar.gz
   

2. No matter how you got the tarball, if you just want to build the PDF paper, simply run the command below. Note that this won't actually install any software or do any analysis, it will just use your host operating system (assuming you already have a LaTeX installation and all the necessary LaTeX packages) to build the PDF using the already-present plots data.

   $ make              # Build PDF in tarball without doing analysis
   

3. If you want to re-build the figures from scratch, you need to make the following corrections to the paper's main LaTeX source (paper.tex): uncomment (remove the starting %) the line containing \newcommand{\makepdf}{}, see the comments above it for more.

Building full project from tarball (custom software and analysis)

As described above, the tarball is mainly geared to only building the final PDF. A few small tweaks are necessary to build the full project from scratch (download necessary software and data, build them and run the analysis and finally create the final paper).

1. If you got the tarball from arXiv, before following the standard procedure of projects described at the top of the file above (using the ./project script), its necessary to set its executable flag because arXiv removes the executable flag from the files (for its own security).

   $ chmod +x project
   

2. Make the following changes in two of the LaTeX files so LaTeX attempts to build the figures from scratch (to make the tarball; it was configured to avoid building the figures, just using the ones that came with the tarball).

   • paper.tex: uncomment (remove the starting %) of the line containing \newcommand{\makepdf}{}, see the comments above it for more.

   • tex/src/preamble-pgfplots.tex: set the tikzsetexternalprefix variable value to tikz/, so it looks like this: \tikzsetexternalprefix{tikz/}.

3. Remove extra files. In order to make sure arXiv can build the paper (resolve conflicts due to different versions of LaTeX packages), it is sometimes necessary to copy raw LaTeX package files in the tarball uploaded to arXiv. Later, we will implement a feature to automatically delete these extra files, but for now, the project's top directory should only have the following contents (where reproduce and tex are directories). You can safely remove any other file/directory.

   $ ls
   COPYING  paper.tex  project  README-hacking.md  README.md  reproduce/  tex/
   

Copyright information

This file and .file-metadata (a binary file, used by Metastore to store file dates when doing Git checkouts) are part of the reproducible project mentioned above and share the same copyright notice (at the start of this file) and license notice (below).

This project is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This project is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this project. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.