Re: Any interest in Debian packages of Geant 4?

2005-12-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: Not yet -- I'd prefer not to submit it upstream until I've thoroughly polished and tested the .debs. (And if they do end up in Debian's archive, it makes life easier if upstream doesn't have their own debian directory.) In general providing a debia

Re: Debian's PAW should now work on AMD64 (also: OpenPAW)

2005-12-22 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
Hi Brett et al, On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 14:40 -0500, Brett Viren wrote: > "Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > In case it slipped past people's notice, I just wanted to mention that > > Cernlib's PAW data analysis program http://packages.debian.org/paw> > > should work OK on Debian/

Re: Any interest in Debian packages of Geant 4?

2005-12-22 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
Hi Kevin, First off, great initiative. At some point I looked into packaging GEANT 4 too, but ws quickly discouraged by the build process and so forth - glad you took the time and effort to do so. As for the size - yeah, it's huge, but so is CERNLIB, ROOT, and what not. I think it's a minor is

Re: Any interest in Debian packages of Geant 4?

2005-12-22 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hello Kevin, If the code license is OSI-compatible, I see no reason to filter it from the Debian archive.  Even if the package is large, it doesn't matter for most users because it will not be installed by default.  The only problem that I can think of is that the full CD/DVD distribution will r

Re: Any interest in Debian packages of Geant 4?

2005-12-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Brett, (CC-ing to James Ferrando since I made a slight update of his clhep2 package to the newest upstream version, and I don't know if he subscribes to debian-science) On 12/22/05, Brett Viren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you contacted Gean

Re: Any interest in Debian packages of Geant 4?

2005-12-22 Thread Brett Viren
Hi Kevin, "Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Needing to do some Monte Carlo simulations for the last bit of work on > my thesis, I was once again reminded how much of a pain compiling Geant4 > from source is. Personally, I would use them. I also always have difficulties building

Re: Debian's PAW should now work on AMD64 (also: OpenPAW)

2005-12-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
I wrote: > PAW on AMD64 now runs almost all of the PAW tests and examples (in the > paw-demo package) successfully. Oops, that should have been "paw-demos" with an 's'. -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton

Re: Any interest in Debian packages of Geant 4?

2005-12-22 Thread Brad Sawatzky
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Here is a question for other HEP / nuclear physicists on the lists. > Please follow up only to debian-science. > > Needing to do some Monte Carlo simulations for the last bit of work on > my thesis, I was once again reminded how much of a pain compil

Any interest in Debian packages of Geant 4?

2005-12-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi all, Here is a question for other HEP / nuclear physicists on the lists. Please follow up only to debian-science. Needing to do some Monte Carlo simulations for the last bit of work on my thesis, I was once again reminded how much of a pain compiling Geant4 from source is. As a result I've sp

Re: Debian's PAW should now work on AMD64 (also: OpenPAW)

2005-12-22 Thread Brett Viren
"Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In case it slipped past people's notice, I just wanted to mention that > Cernlib's PAW data analysis program http://packages.debian.org/paw> > should work OK on Debian/AMD64 Nice. One less reason to keep my cluster at 32 bits. > On another note,

Debian's PAW should now work on AMD64 (also: OpenPAW)

2005-12-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi lists, In case it slipped past people's notice, I just wanted to mention that Cernlib's PAW data analysis program http://packages.debian.org/paw> should work OK on Debian/AMD64 as of version 2005.05.09.dfsg-3. I've applied Harald Vogt's AMD64 patches from http://www-zeuthen.desy.de/linear_coll