Re: Packaging .deb vs .rpm - Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-08 Thread Florent Rougon
Zenaan Harkness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, I know I wouldn't want to spend time learning _two_ packaging systems - .deb (and .tar of course) are surely enough? It seems you don't realize that converting from one packaging system to another and hoping the results works correctly in most

Re: Packaging .deb vs .rpm - Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-08 Thread Florent Rougon
Zenaan Harkness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, I know I wouldn't want to spend time learning _two_ packaging systems - .deb (and .tar of course) are surely enough? It seems you don't realize that converting from one packaging system to another and hoping the results works correctly in most

Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-07 Thread Halim Boukaram
If you want it to be widely usable, then I would also suggest packaging your software in .rpm format. I know a lot of people who work as sys-admins on Linux systems, and they feel much better when software is in .rpm, because that's what they know. yes but i'll have to research how to make a

Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-07 Thread Halim Boukaram
If you want it to be widely usable, then I would also suggest packaging your software in .rpm format. I know a lot of people who work as sys-admins on Linux systems, and they feel much better when software is in .rpm, because that's what they know. yes but i'll have to research how to make a

Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-07 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 22:48, Eduard Bloch wrote: #include hallo.h * Zenaan Harkness [Sat, Feb 07 2004, 04:20:47AM]: sys-admins on Linux systems, and they feel much better when software is in .rpm, because that's what they know. Don't RPM distros now have apt/ alien to install?

Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-07 Thread R. Wood
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 07:36:11AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness imagined: On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 22:48, Eduard Bloch wrote: #include hallo.h Zenaan Harkness [Sat, Feb 07 2004, 04:20:47AM]: sys-admins on Linux systems, and they feel much better when software is in .rpm, because that's

Packaging .deb vs .rpm - Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-07 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 07:49, R. Wood wrote: On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 07:36:11AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness imagined: On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 22:48, Eduard Bloch wrote: #include hallo.h Zenaan Harkness [Sat, Feb 07 2004, 04:20:47AM]: sys-admins on Linux systems, and they feel much

Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-07 Thread Halim Boukaram
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 01:50:50AM -0800, Halim Boukaram wrote: I dont want to work with Octave since it is interpreter based and the whole point behind numerical analysis is super speed.Old fashion programmer uh? :)Anyway, any C library can be potentially embedded in a scriptinglanguage like

Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-07 Thread Halim Boukaram
If you want it to be widely usable, then I would also suggest packaging your software in .rpm format. I know a lot of people who work as sys-admins on Linux systems, and they feel much better when software is in .rpm, because that's what they know. yes but i'll have to research how to make a

Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-07 Thread Halim Boukaram
If you want it to be widely usable, then I would also suggest packaging your software in .rpm format. I know a lot of people who work as sys-admins on Linux systems, and they feel much better when software is in .rpm, because that's what they know. yes but i'll have to research how to make a

Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-07 Thread elijah wright
I dont want to work with Octave since it is interpreter based and the whole point behind numerical analysis is super speed. Old fashion programmer uh? :) Anyway, any C library can be potentially embedded in a scripting language like octave (as it's true for perl or python). So the

Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-07 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Zenaan Harkness [Sat, Feb 07 2004, 04:20:47AM]: sys-admins on Linux systems, and they feel much better when software is in .rpm, because that's what they know. Don't RPM distros now have apt/ alien to install? (ie. so they can install .deb archives) ??? APT does not

Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-07 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 22:48, Eduard Bloch wrote: #include hallo.h * Zenaan Harkness [Sat, Feb 07 2004, 04:20:47AM]: sys-admins on Linux systems, and they feel much better when software is in .rpm, because that's what they know. Don't RPM distros now have apt/ alien to

Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-07 Thread R. Wood
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 07:36:11AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness imagined: On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 22:48, Eduard Bloch wrote: #include hallo.h Zenaan Harkness [Sat, Feb 07 2004, 04:20:47AM]: sys-admins on Linux systems, and they feel much better when software is in .rpm, because that's

Packaging .deb vs .rpm - Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-07 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 07:49, R. Wood wrote: On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 07:36:11AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness imagined: On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 22:48, Eduard Bloch wrote: #include hallo.h Zenaan Harkness [Sat, Feb 07 2004, 04:20:47AM]: sys-admins on Linux systems, and they feel much

Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 03:33, Craig P. Steffen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Halim, If you want it to be widely usable, then I would also suggest packaging your software in .rpm format. I know a lot of people who work as sys-admins on Linux systems, and they feel

Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
See my comments below. On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 19:04, Halim Boukaram wrote: I don't know enough to really know, but it sure sounds impressive. Presumably you are aware of the various GNU projects for these sorts of libraries?

Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-06 Thread Halim Boukaram
Ok so i want the library asFree and under theGPL License. I dont want to work withOctave since it is interpreter based and the whole point behind numerical analysis is super speed. If other people want towork on it with me thats fine but i have to say where numerical methods are concerned you

Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
PS: Zen my library is perfect but if you want I'll try my best to add some bugs Hey, your libary may well be perfect :) More power to you, dude! http://www.gnu.org/directory/ is the top level GNU software page, and here is the GNU mathematics packages page:

Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 22:27, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Initially, the simplest route is to find some place to upload it (eg. create a sourceforge site) and tell people about it - announce it to the Debian.org, www.GNU.org and Slashdot.org websites. And be sure to clearly state the license that

Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-06 Thread Halim Boukaram
Actually Zen my goal from the begining was to package it for a GNU/Linux distribution specifically the widely popular and highly recommended Debian. I'll get on making the page at source forge also i'll makea more detailed comparison between octave andmy library which i'm calling matlib. i'm

Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-06 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 01:50:50AM -0800, Halim Boukaram wrote: I dont want to work with Octave since it is interpreter based and the whole point behind numerical analysis is super speed. Old fashion programmer uh? :) Anyway, any C library can be potentially embedded in a scripting language

Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-06 Thread Craig P. Steffen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Halim, If you want it to be widely usable, then I would also suggest packaging your software in .rpm format. I know a lot of people who work as sys-admins on Linux systems, and they feel much better when software is in .rpm, because that's what

Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 03:33, Craig P. Steffen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Halim, If you want it to be widely usable, then I would also suggest packaging your software in .rpm format. I know a lot of people who work as sys-admins on Linux systems, and they feel

C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-05 Thread Halim Boukaram
This is my second email. will it reach? I've written a fast C library for numerical analysis. -integration -differential equations -root finding -interpolation -fourier analysis -ploting curves -misc functions such as rect, tri etc I need to know where to go from here please answer. my inbox is

C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-05 Thread Halim Boukaram
This is my second email. will it reach? I've written a fast C library for numerical analysis. -integration -differential equations -root finding -interpolation -fourier analysis -ploting curves -misc functions such as rect, tri etc I need to know where to go from here please answer. my inbox is

Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 18:02, Halim Boukaram wrote: This is my second email. will it reach? I've written a fast C library for numerical analysis. -integration -differential equations -root finding -interpolation -fourier analysis -ploting curves -misc functions such as rect, tri etc