Get more Science into your Distribution, switch to Debian

Posted Nov 9, 2006 22:32 UTC (Thu) by kmccarty (subscriber, #12085)
In reply to: Get more Science into your Distribution, switch to Debian by ballombe
Parent article: Get more Science into your Distribution

Seeing the tremendous amount of scientific applications packaging work made by Debian developers not being mentionned is a bit painful to me. Providing acceptable quality packages for most scientific applications is a challenge, and scripts like scibuntu mostly draw from this pool.

Very much agreed. I hope it isn't too self-propagandizing to mention a short article I wrote related to this problem: Physics Software Rant

Get more Science into your Distribution, switch to Debian

Posted Nov 11, 2006 4:23 UTC (Sat) by roelofs (guest, #2599) [Link] (1 responses)

Physics Software Rant

Note that you (indirectly) mention Geant4 as a "not a license" example, but they very clearly link a real, BSDish license off the page to which you link. I can't tell when you wrote your rant, however, so maybe that's a "new" development (30 June).

Greg

Get more Science into your Distribution, switch to Debian

Posted Nov 11, 2006 6:10 UTC (Sat) by kmccarty (subscriber, #12085) [Link]

Thanks for the notice; now fixed. (I was actually aware of the new license, but forgot that Geant4 was mentioned in this context on the web page.)