Re: ITP: Biomail - automated medical searcher
On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Seth Cohn wrote: Author is excited about getting this packaged for Debian. Homepage is http://biomail.sourceforge.net NIce news. This saves me some work I wanted to do since I visited the lession about BioMail on the conference in Bordeaux. Go for it! I think this will go into contrib, since it uses PubMed's database, and it is pretty useless without access to their database. The code itself Hmmm, but you don't have to install this database on your own box! You just access it via http, if I'm not completely wrong. So what. Accessing non-free databases in the net shouldn't exclude a software from main in my opinion. Files in contrib have a Depends: foo-nonfree in their control file, but I think you won't do a Depends: PubMed because there will be no PubMed package. I'm still waiting in the new maintainer queue, but I'm sure I can get this uploaded via sponsorship. I would sponsor the package. Kind regards Andreas.
Re: ITP: Biomail - automated medical searcher
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 09:56:04AM +0200, Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake forth: On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Seth Cohn wrote: I think this will go into contrib, since it uses PubMed's database, and it is pretty useless without access to their database. The code itself Hmmm, but you don't have to install this database on your own box! You just access it via http, if I'm not completely wrong. So what. Accessing non-free databases in the net shouldn't exclude a software from main in my opinion. Files in contrib have a Depends: foo-nonfree in their control file, but I think you won't do a Depends: PubMed because there will be no PubMed package. Personally I think it can go into main. If we have the client code, obviously a pubmed-compatible free database can be written, right? -- Mike Markley [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: 0xA9592D4D 62 A7 11 E2 23 AD 4F 57 27 05 1A 76 56 92 D5 F6 GPG: 0x3B047084 7FC7 0DC0 EF31 DF83 7313 FE2B 77A8 F36A 3B04 7084 Logic and practical information do not seem to apply here. You admit that? To deny the facts would be illogical, Doctor - Spock and McCoy, A Piece of the Action, stardate unknown
Re: ITP: Biomail - automated medical searcher
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Mike Markley wrote: Personally I think it can go into main. If we have the client code, obviously a pubmed-compatible free database can be written, right? I wonder if this a) is allowed b) would make sense. I just think that a program that is used to access a database on a certain server does not necessarily depends from this non-free software. Your box runs perfectly well without any non-free software. The normal access is via any web-browser. I don't think that web-browsers have to go to contrib just because you are able to access nop-free sites with it. Kind regards Andreas.
Re: ITP: Biomail - automated medical searcher
Author is excited about getting this packaged for Debian. Homepage is http://biomail.sourceforge.net NIce news. This saves me some work I wanted to do since I visited the lession about BioMail on the conference in Bordeaux. Go for it! I think this will go into contrib, since it uses PubMed's database, and it is pretty useless without access to their database. The code itself Hmmm, but you don't have to install this database on your own box! You just access it via http, if I'm not completely wrong. You are correct. My error, since I didn't check the definition of contrib. So long as it's not a package, the dependance on the external website is ok. I thought any external dependances made it non-main. But it's GPL, so it's DFSG compliant 100%. Ok, it'l be in main then. Are there plans to make the new science subsection soon? This would fit in there nicely. I would sponsor the package. thanks, Seth
ITP: Biomail - automated medical searcher
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2000-08-19 Severity: important Author is excited about getting this packaged for Debian. Homepage is http://biomail.sourceforge.net License is GPL I think this will go into contrib, since it uses PubMed's database, and it is pretty useless without access to their database. The code itself is free, and I think someone could easily modify this into doing many other similar database searches. Imagine if someone tweaked this to do searches on common web sites, so it would email you anytime the topic you desired was mentioned. I'm still waiting in the new maintainer queue, but I'm sure I can get this uploaded via sponsorship. BioMail is a small web-based application for medical researchers, biologists, and anyone who wants to know the latest information about a disease or a biological phenomenon. It is written to automate searching for recent scientific papers in the PubMed Medline database. BioMail is free and will stay free. What does BioMail do? Periodically BioMail does a user-customized Medline search and sends all matching articles recently added to Medline to the users' e-mail address. HTML-formatted e-mails generated by BioMail can be used to view selected references in medline format (compatible with most reference manager programs). Why is BioMail helpful? If you use Medline, it may be hard to remember when you did your last search. Often you must scan titles you have already seen to be certain you didn't miss an important reference. BioMail will perform routine searches for you. This program alerts users to all new papers in their fields automatically. It also helps the user to 'refine' search patterns once and for all. There is no need to wonder: 'What was that great search pattern I used last Saturday?'. All patterns are safe in the database and can be accessed, tuned, or deleted any time. It is also useful for countries where access to the Internet is not yet widely available. If a person has a permanent e-mail address, but only sporadic www access, she/he only needs to fill out a BioMail form once and then will receive new references from Medline continually. License It is released under GNU GPL license. This means it can be freely used, distributed, modified and redistributed as a new application, or it can even be sold for money, as long as the original or modified source codes remain freely available (and a little respect to the author is shown). Requirements BioMail was written in Perl for Linux. It was also checked under San Solaris7, Irix 6.5 (on SGI), Tru64 Unix 4.OE (on Digital alpha), and should be fine for other Unix OSes. BioMail requires a standard Perl distribution and two additional Perl modules from CPAN -- LWP::Simple and Mail::Mailer. Code by Dmitry Mozzherin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
