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Following Amy Brown's [1]:

> We borrowed the "bootcamp" terminology from Hacker Within and also
> various fitness training camps, but as we branch out into parts of
> the world with a more violent recent history I'm less comfortable
> with the term.

The consensus on that issue was to change back to our old 'workshop'
terminology.  The swcarpentry/bc repository hasn't made the shift yet,
but there's no reason I can't embrace the future here ;).

[1]: https://github.com/swcarpentry/bc/issues/240
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This directory contains scripts for testing your machine to make sure
you have the software you'll need for your boot camp installed. See
you have the software you'll need for your workshop installed. See
the comments at the head of each script for more details, but you'll
basically want to see something like:

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checks for a list of dependencies and prints error messages if a
package is not installed, or if the installed version is not current
enough. By default, the script checks for pretty much anything that
has ever been used at a Software Carpentry boot camp, which is
probably not what you want for your particular boot camp.
has ever been used at a Software Carpentry workshop, which is probably
not what you want for your particular workshop.

Before your boot camp, you should go through
Before your workshop, you should go through
`swc-installation-test-2.py` and comment any dependencies you don't
need out of the `CHECKS` list. You might also want to skim through
the minimum version numbers listed where particular dependencies are
defined (e.g. `('git', 'Git', (1, 7, 0), None)`). For the most part,
fairly conservative values have been selected, so students with modern
machines should be fine. If your boot camp has stricter version
machines should be fine. If your workshop has stricter version
requirements, feel free to bump them accordingly.

Similarly, the virtual dependencies can be satisfied by any of several
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