Re: Mime types for medical data formats

2008-03-31 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Montag, den 31.03.2008, 08:10 +0200 schrieb Andreas Tille: > I recently learned that file has obviosely no means for detecting biological > data formats. Three months ago we had some discussions about Applied > Biosystems chromatograms[1]. This thread more or less had ended with: We > are wai

Re: Mime types for medical data formats

2008-03-31 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Daniel Leidert wrote: As long as there is no agreement with upstream, you can use the a) x- prefix approach b) vnd. vendor approach Both are described in the MIME specification (IIRC i mentioned the RFC in the discussion). I would suggest the latter for the application/* t

Re: Mime types for medical data formats

2008-03-31 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Montag, den 31.03.2008, 15:56 +0200 schrieb Andreas Tille: > On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Daniel Leidert wrote: > > > As long as there is no agreement with upstream, you can use the > > > > a) x- prefix approach > > b) vnd. vendor approach > > > > Both are described in the MIME specification (IIRC i me

Re: Mime types for medical data formats

2008-03-31 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 08:10:12AM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : > Now I wonder whether we could assemble general mime information for > several biological data formats to enable applications to detect whether > files have the format they should have. I think this would be of great > profit for

Re: Mime types for medical data formats

2008-03-31 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Charles Plessy wrote: Indeed, my initial approach of having the definition in the packages using them is not sustainable. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMedMIME Although I was initially thinking that it would be better to to this for Lenny+1, I do not see a reason why we s

Google SoC (Bio DB manager)

2008-03-31 Thread Aidan Findlater
Are applications for the SoC biological database manager project are still open? I know it's last-minute, but I thought it can't hurt to ask. Please let me know if it is possible to still apply, and what I would need to do so. In 2006, I got an NSERC (Canada's big science funding body) award to do

Re: Google SoC (Bio DB manager)

2008-03-31 Thread Aidan Findlater
Oh, I forgot to mention that Debian is the best distro, and Vi is the best editor. Hopefully that last one doesn't get me disqualified... -Aidan On 31/03/2008, Aidan Findlater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are applications for the SoC biological database manager project are still > open? I know

Gnumed for arm

2008-03-31 Thread Sebastian Hilbert
This is what I mean http://qa.debian.org/debcheck.php?dist=testing&package=gnumed-client It is not available for arm architecture , is it ? Take file for example from here http://packages.debian.org/lenny/file It shows more architectures including arm. So I believe there is no repository I coul

GNUmed and libchipcard

2008-03-31 Thread Sebastian Hilbert
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/gnumed-client it lists a recommended package libchipcard3-tools which supposedly does not exist. Is this an error ? Thanks -- Sebastian Hilbert Leipzig / Germany [www.gnumed.de] -> PGP welcome, HTML ->/dev/null -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Build-dependency for rasmol: cbflib

2008-03-31 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
"Teemu Ikonen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Two-way syncing between SVN and most other distributed VCS is possible > (I've tried it with bzr and git). The problem here is not really > subversion, but svn-buildpackage, which encourages storing only the > debian dir. I suppose it would be theoretic

Re: GNUmed and libchipcard

2008-03-31 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Sebastian Hilbert wrote: http://packages.debian.org/lenny/gnumed-client it lists a recommended package libchipcard3-tools which supposedly does not exist. Is this an error ? It would be an error if it would be correct what you wrote. But it is not "Recommended" but "Sugg

Re: Gnumed for arm

2008-03-31 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Sebastian Hilbert wrote: This is what I mean http://qa.debian.org/debcheck.php?dist=testing&package=gnumed-client Ahh, OK, that explains the situation. It is not available for arm architecture , is it ? Take file for example from here http://packages.debian.org/len

Re: Google SoC (Bio DB manager)

2008-03-31 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Aidan Findlater wrote: Oh, I forgot to mention that Debian is the best distro, and Vi is the best editor. Hopefully that last one doesn't get me disqualified... Well, the first statement increases your chances, but the second pushes you out! ;-) Wait, last chance: What is

Re: Google SoC (Bio DB manager)

2008-03-31 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:45:55PM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : > On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Aidan Findlater wrote: > > >Oh, I forgot to mention that Debian is the best distro, and Vi is the best > >editor. Hopefully that last one doesn't get me disqualified... > > Well, the first statement increases