Re: note-taking and PDF annotation: jarnal

2009-04-08 Thread Chris Walker
David Bremner brem...@unb.ca writes: Do these tools seem appropriate for the increasingly-misnamed typesetting task? I think that they fit in with the other things in that task. What about renaming typesetting to document production? I agree that typesetting is too specific for what

Re: Bug#522017: ITP: jblas -- jblas is a fast linear algebra library for Java

2009-04-03 Thread Chris Walker
Matthias Klose d...@debian.org writes: Chris Walker schrieb: Soeren Sonnenburg so...@debian.org writes: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Soeren Sonnenburg so...@debian.org * Package name: jblas This package seems likely to be of interest to debian-science, so I'm

Re: Bug#522017: ITP: jblas -- jblas is a fast linear algebra library for Java

2009-03-31 Thread Chris Walker
Soeren Sonnenburg so...@debian.org writes: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Soeren Sonnenburg so...@debian.org * Package name: jblas This package seems likely to be of interest to debian-science, so I'm sending this mail there too. It would presumably fit into the

Re: Grid tasks

2009-03-12 Thread Chris Walker
Steffen Moeller steffen_moel...@gmx.de writes: Andreas Tille wrote: On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Chris Walker wrote: Currently the packages are in the new queue. Should I wait until they actually reach unstable before creating the task? Are there any other obvious candidate packages

Re: Grid tasks

2009-03-12 Thread Chris Walker
Martin Quinson martin.quin...@loria.fr writes: Le mardi 10 mars 2009 à 16:24 +0100, Manuel Prinz a écrit : Am Dienstag, den 10.03.2009, 16:08 +0100 schrieb Martin Quinson: What about renaming these packages globus-client and globus-server? If those would be globus-specific virtual

Grid tasks

2009-03-09 Thread Chris Walker
I propose we (Debian-science) create two grid tasks packages: Grid-client: This would contain the packages a user workstation needs to submit jobs to the grid. Grid-server: Packages for running a grid cluster. The globus packages recently proposed on debian-devel are obvious candidates.

Re: RC bugs in science packages

2009-02-13 Thread Chris Walker
Manuel Prinz deb...@pinguinkiste.de writes: Am Dienstag, den 03.02.2009, 15:20 +0100 schrieb Andreas Tille: Code to obtain the bugs in question just exists in the script which generates the bugs pages. It would not be very hard to implement sending a monthly mail according to this using

Re: sagemath 3.0.5 now in sid

2009-02-12 Thread Chris Walker
Tim Abbott tabb...@mit.edu writes: Hey all, Since I previously mentioned my efforts to package Sage for Debian here, I thought I'd update you guys that Sage (http://sagemath.org) 3.0.5 is now available in Debian sid, as the sagemath package. Great. Should I add it to the Numerical

Re: Bug#514751: ITP: pgfplots -- TeX package to draw normal and/or logarithmic plots directly in TeX

2009-02-12 Thread Chris Walker
OHURA Makoto oh...@debian.org writes: * Package name: pgfplots I've added this to the science-viewing task package. For the benefit of Makoto, debian-science collects related packages that are useful to scientists into tasks packages. See

Re: sagemath 3.0.5 now in sid

2009-02-12 Thread Chris Walker
giuliano curti giuli...@tiscali.it writes: On 12 Feb 2009 12:30:26 + Chris Walker chr...@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote: Tim Abbott tabb...@mit.edu writes: Hey all, [cut] Great. Should I add it to the Numerical Computation task: http://blends.alioth.debian.org

Re: Bug#505224: RFP: freecad -- An extensible CAx program (alpha)

2009-02-11 Thread Chris Walker
Adam C Powell IV hazel...@debian.org writes: On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 14:10 +, Chris Walker wrote: On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 02:37:31PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 11:42:07AM +, Chris Walker wrote: Robert Millan r...@aybabtu.com writes: Package: wnpp

Re: Bug#514903: ITP: pymca -- Python toolkit and application for X-ray fluorescence analysis

2009-02-11 Thread Chris Walker
Teemu Ikonen tpiko...@gmail.com writes: * Package name: pymca [snip] I've added it to the science-physics task. Prelimary packages will be soon at the Debian Science repository at git.debian.org. When it is, if you let me know I'll add that information to the task too. Chris

Re: Bug#514485: ITP: globus-usage -- Globus Toolkit - Usage Library

2009-02-08 Thread Chris Walker
Steffen Moeller steffen_moel...@gmx.de writes: * Package name: globus-usage * URL : http://www.globus.org/ * License : Apache 2 Programming Lang: C/C++ Description : Globus Toolkit - Usage Library Debian-science has been collecting packages useful for

Re: Bug#505224: RFP: freecad -- An extensible CAx program (alpha)

2009-02-03 Thread Chris Walker
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 02:37:31PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 11:42:07AM +, Chris Walker wrote: Robert Millan r...@aybabtu.com writes: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Robert Millan r...@aybabtu.com * Package name: freecad I've

abinitio QM packages - was Re: Extensible Simulation Package for Research on Soft matter

2009-02-03 Thread Chris Walker
I'm sending this to debichem-devel as well as debian-science. Andreas Tille til...@rki.de writes: On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Chris Walker wrote: Andreas Tille wrote: thanks to a hint from Helge Kreutzmann I had a look at ESPResSo++ http://espresso.scai.fraunhofer.de/ Should I add

Re: Bug#513296: debian-science: Please add science-all meta-package

2009-02-03 Thread Chris Walker
Andreas Tille til...@rki.de writes: [debian-custom in CC because it is strongly related] On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Daniel Baumann wrote: it would be nice if you could add a science-all meta-package that depends on all science-* meta packages. That would make live-cd building a bit easier

Re: Newbie presentation and slashdot thread

2009-02-02 Thread Chris Walker
Andreas Tille til...@rki.de writes: On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Chris Walker wrote: This list may or may not be of interest- http://heybryan.org/mediawiki/index.php/Comp_chem_linkdump I've added it to http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/OtherLinks and the chemistry wiki page. It would

Re: Extensible Simulation Package for Research on Soft matter

2009-02-02 Thread Chris Walker
Jörg-Volker Peetz jvpe...@web.de writes: Hi Andreas, other candidates in this category are, IMHO, | QUANTUMESPRESSO | http://www.quantum-espresso.org/ PWscf http://www.pwscf.org/ CP2Khttp://cp2k.berlios.de/ Andreas Tille wrote: thanks to a hint from

Re: Bug#513972: ITP: mlpost -- Objective Caml interface to Metapost

2009-02-02 Thread Chris Walker
Package: mlpost The package below looks interesting - so I've added it as a prospective package to the debian-science typesetting task. I'm trying to be more proactive in adding things to the science tasks. Chris Stephane Glondu st...@glondu.net writes: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist

Re: Newbie presentation and slashdot thread

2009-01-31 Thread Chris Walker
André Isidoro Fernandes Esteves a...@netvisao.pt writes: Hi! My name is André Esteves and i live in Portugal. Been lurking your mal and trying to get some courage to help you somewhere... Welcome to debian-science. I'd encourage you (and anyone else lurking) to get involved. It is a

Re: Newbie presentation and slashdot thread

2009-01-31 Thread Chris Walker
Bryan Bishop kanz...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 6:04 PM, André Isidoro Fernandes Esteves wrote: In the meantime, may i ask for your attention to this slashdot thred: Open Source Software For Experimental Physics?

Re: Extensible Simulation Package for Research on Soft matter

2009-01-31 Thread Chris Walker
Chris Walker chr...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Chris Walker chr...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Andreas Tille til...@rki.de writes: On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: other candidates in this category are, IMHO, [snip details] | QUANTUMESPRESSO | http

Re: [matplotlib-devel] What would you like to see in a book about Matplotlib?

2009-01-30 Thread Chris Walker
Note: Posted to matplotlib-devel and debian-science. Sandro, Firstly, good luck with the book. The sort of book I'd buy would explain how to use the combination of matplotlib/ipython/scipy/numpy to analyse data. - what are you using matplotlib for? I want to use

Re: Bug#513608: ITP: avl -- Analyser for the aerodynamic and flight-dynamic of rigid aircraft.

2009-01-30 Thread Chris Walker
Cross posted to debian-science. Loïc Fejoz l...@fejoz.net writes: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Loïc Fejoz l...@fejoz.net * Package name: avl I've taken the liberty of adding this to the science-engineering task - see

Re: Extensible Simulation Package for Research on Soft matter

2009-01-30 Thread Chris Walker
Chris Walker chr...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Andreas Tille til...@rki.de writes: On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: other candidates in this category are, IMHO, | QUANTUMESPRESSO | http://www.quantum-espresso.org/ Integrated suite of computer codes

Re: Extensible Simulation Package for Research on Soft matter

2009-01-30 Thread Chris Walker
Jörg-Volker Peetz jvpe...@web.de writes: Chris Walker wrote: I suspect simulation is too generic. The packages you list perfom abinitio quantum mechanics to determine structure[1] snip I support this point of view. Simulation, IMO, also comprises packages like gerris, FeeFem

Re: What would you like to see in a book about Matplotlib?

2009-01-21 Thread Chris Walker
Brett Viren b...@bnl.gov writes: One feature that I would appreciate knowing about, if it is supported, is how to show() a plot but not loose the ipython prompt. This is something that ROOT (and PyROOT) supports and it makes it much easier to play with plots interactively. Does

Re: Yet another list statistics for debian-science

2009-01-20 Thread Chris Walker
Andreas Tille til...@rki.de writes: On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Brett Viren wrote: http://people.debian.org/~tille/liststats/authorstat_science.pdf It is interesting work. Indeed. As is, an apparent slow year is ambiguous. It may be due to actually more conversation by more diverse

Re: science-imageanalysis (Was: [RFC] New task: science-dataacquisition)

2008-12-14 Thread Chris Walker
Andreas Tille til...@rki.de writes: On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Chris Walker wrote: I don't feel the description fully captures what I want it to say, so suggestions for improvement appreciated. The name is not set in stone either. Looks good. Thanks. I chose Numerical computation

Re: [RFC] New task: science-dataacquisition

2008-12-14 Thread Chris Walker
Andreas Tille til...@rki.de writes: [Move this thread to debian-custom list because it belongs here instead of debian-science list.] On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Chris Walker wrote: The fact that until now nobody has sended me a patch to blends-dev in my eyes is a prove that there is nobody

Re: New -dev tasks

2008-12-13 Thread Chris Walker
Sylvestre Ledru sylvestre.le...@inria.fr writes: Hello, From time to time, I am trying to add more packages into Debian science blend. However, I am always stuck when dealing with libraries. When I am adding a library dealing with physics, I would prefer to add it into a physics-dev

Re: New web feature: packagelist (Was: [RFC] New task: science-dataacquisition)

2008-12-12 Thread Chris Walker
Andreas Tille til...@rki.de writes: Hi, as it was requested on the debian-science mailing list [1] we should provide in addition to our tasks pages a short overview about the packages as Ubuntu Science is doing[2]. Nice. Debian Science:

Re: [RFC] New task: science-dataacquisition

2008-12-10 Thread Chris Walker
Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Chris Walker wrote: Libcv1 - a computer vision library What do you want to tell me by this? This is for image analysis - and so should probably go alongside Gpiv - in an image acquisition/analysis metapackage. OK, one

Re: [RFC] New task: science-dataacquisition

2008-12-10 Thread Chris Walker
Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Chris Walker wrote: [snip] Sure. I think the Wiki is a perfect tool for the *initial* work to find a reasonable set - especially if you are no specialist. That's why I'm in favour of starting with a Wiki and move this work

Re: [RFC] New task: science-dataacquisition

2008-12-09 Thread Chris Walker
Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 8 Dec 2008, Chris Walker wrote: There are also unofficial debs of TANGO - again linked to from the physics wiki. Unfortunately, there is an ITP for another completely unrelated package called tango recently announced on debian-devel

Re: [RFC] New task: science-dataacquisition

2008-12-09 Thread Chris Walker
Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Gerber van der Graaf wrote: A whole area of science that depend on image analyses (from microscopic to astronomics) might like to include different programs to control cameras. Some ideas: In general I like the idea to give

Re: [RFC] New task: science-dataacquisition

2008-12-09 Thread Chris Walker
Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 8 Dec 2008, Chris Walker wrote: The robotics task has Libcv1 - a computer vision library What do you want to tell me by this? This is for image analysis - and so should probably go alongside Gpiv - in an image acquisition/analysis

Re: DebianScience Live

2008-12-08 Thread Chris Walker
Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Chris Walker wrote: What about the projects at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/LiveCD ? What features are most important that aren't available yet? What I meant to say is that it looks like the debian-live effort

Re: [DebianGIS] DebianGis and DebianScience/Geography

2008-12-08 Thread Chris Walker
Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Chris Walker wrote: I still can't find a link to: http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/gis/tasks/workstation.html - though there is a link to the http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=education-geography metapackage [1

Computer Algebra Systems comparison

2008-12-07 Thread Chris Walker
I have added http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/ComputerAlgebraSystems with some comments (taken from the debian-science mailing list) on the relative merits of Axiom/Maxima/Yacas. Please do add to this - sympy isn't mentioned for example. Sage might also be useful - though it isn't a debian

Re: Science live DVD

2008-12-04 Thread Chris Walker
Chris Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Note Debian-science and debian-live CCed on this. Daniel Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chris Walker wrote: Is it really as simple as adding the science metapackages[1] to /usr/share/live-helper/lists? yes; and preferably you would

Re: Bug#507529: ITP: bauble -- Bauble is a biodiversity collection manager software application

2008-12-03 Thread Chris Walker
Felipe Figueiredo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the meantime, a suggestion: I've seen recently a discussion on trying to convince upstream to re-license some software to be dfsg-free (IIRC, in debian-science). I don't remember the software itself, but the discussion revolved on what would be

Re: Science live DVD

2008-12-02 Thread Chris Walker
Note Debian-science and debian-live CCed on this. Daniel Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chris Walker wrote: Is it really as simple as adding the science metapackages[1] to /usr/share/live-helper/lists? yes; and preferably you would send a file (like /usr/share/live-helper/lists

DebianScience Live

2008-12-01 Thread Chris Walker
Is anyone round here working on a science live DVD/USB key system? Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DebianScience Live

2008-12-01 Thread Chris Walker
Mike Chelen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Chris Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone round here working on a science live DVD/USB key system? I'm sorry I was too brief here. What about the projects at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/LiveCD ? What

Re: Axiom FTBFS on sparc

2008-11-14 Thread Chris Walker
David Bremner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 11 Nov 2008 12:40:02 +, Chris Walker wrote: I've just tried to build axiom on sparc on a lenny system- and get exactly the same build error. It builds fine on an i386 system. Unfortunately I suspect that to track this down needs someone

Re: Announcement: New bugs pages, status of renaming

2008-11-13 Thread Chris Walker
Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Chris Walker wrote: You might also want to ignore, or reduce the weight of bugs under a certain age - perhaps an absolute cut off of 28 days, or perhaps a sliding scale depending upon severity - with critical bugs becoming

Re: Announcement: New bugs pages, status of renaming

2008-11-13 Thread Chris Walker
Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Chris Walker wrote: That's true, though if the although a normal bug fixed The reason IYes, that's true. The rationale behind suggesting it was that it ... ups this paragraph is unfinished ... What I meant to say

Re: yacas and Mathematics task

2008-11-13 Thread Chris Walker
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2008/11/13 Chris Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Alternatives packaged for Debian seem to be Maxima, axiom/openaxiom/FriCAS, sympy - any comments on these? I asked this in private e-mail rather than to the list. I find the answer really helpful

Re: Axiom FTBFS on sparc

2008-11-12 Thread Chris Walker
David Bremner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 11 Nov 2008 12:40:02 +, Chris Walker wrote: I've just tried to build axiom on sparc on a lenny system- and get exactly the same build error. It builds fine on an i386 system. Unfortunately I suspect that to track this down needs someone

Re: Announcement: New bugs pages, status of renaming

2008-11-12 Thread Chris Walker
Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ahh, yes. This is definitely planed. I also wanted to link from the tasks pages to the bugs pages somehow indicating the bug status as well. But I wanted to gather some comments on my estimation of the status first. I really like the idea - so

Re: Axiom FTBFS on sparc

2008-11-11 Thread Chris Walker
Chris Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Bremner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Camm; I remember mail is a bit in-transition for you. Did you see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=500997 It looks like it is sparc specific. I tossed around the idea

Re: Announcement: New bugs pages, status of renaming

2008-11-07 Thread Chris Walker
Jordan Mantha [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Egon Willighagen wrote: I'm also part of DebiChem, though unfortunately rather dorment in the last two years... I'll check the discussion asap again, and

Re: agent-based simulation

2008-10-25 Thread Chris Walker
Ross Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 09:44 -0700, Scott Christley wrote: I'm happy to do all of the packaging work, so no need for you to spend time on that. Plus some work has been done already for packaging an older version of Swarm, so that is a starting

Re: agent-based simulation

2008-10-23 Thread Chris Walker
Ross Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 09:44 -0700, Scott Christley wrote: On Oct 20, 2008, at 11:20 AM, Ross Boylan wrote: On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 21:07 -0700, Scott Christley wrote: Hello, I've been recently doing some work with the debian-med group to

Re: [Debichem-devel] Chemistry wiki page

2008-10-18 Thread Chris Walker
Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 12:10:14AM +0100, Chris Walker wrote: I have added almost all[1] the science-chemistry packages to the http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/Chemistry page. I have done some categorisation of them, but mainly from

Re: tasks overview wishlist: Canonical citing reference

2008-10-12 Thread Chris Walker
Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems that if we go the Debhelper way, we could make dh_references not install anything if DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS contains a 'nodoc' flag. When a large majority of the scientific packages would contain debian/references, we could enhance dh_references

Re: tasks overview wishlist: Canonical citing reference

2008-10-11 Thread Chris Walker
Manuel Prinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sure. So, to summarize, we have the following options: 1. The references are added to the long description 2. The references are added to Packages via a new X-* field 3. The references are added to debian/copyright 4. The

Re: [Debichem-devel] Chemistry wiki page

2008-10-08 Thread Chris Walker
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 05:05:51PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 12:10:14AM +0100, Chris Walker wrote: I have added almost all[1] the science-chemistry packages to the http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/Chemistry page. I have done some categorisation of them

Re: Chemistry wiki page

2008-10-07 Thread Chris Walker
Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Chris Walker wrote: apbs Adaptive Poisson Boltzmann Solver in particular I don't know how to categorise. I have also included the abinitio package abinit and OpenMX - from the physics task, and the v-sim structure viewer

Chemistry wiki page

2008-10-06 Thread Chris Walker
I have added almost all[1] the science-chemistry packages to the http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/Chemistry page. I have done some categorisation of them, but mainly from their descriptions - so corrections welcome. apbs Adaptive Poisson Boltzmann Solver in particular I don't know how to

Re: Creating a debian robotics group inside debian science

2008-10-05 Thread Chris Walker
Leopold Palomo Avellaneda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A Diumenge 05 Octubre 2008, Andreas Tille va escriure: On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Leopold Palomo Avellaneda wrote: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/Robotics - which doesn't exist. Is there somewhere more appropriate for it to point?

Re: Creating a debian robotics group inside debian science

2008-10-04 Thread Chris Walker
Leopold Palomo Avellaneda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A Dimarts 30 Setembre 2008, Jose Luis Blanco va escriure: Hi everyone! As researcher in robotics, I really like the idea of a robotics division within debian/science. Currently http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience links to

Re: new open science list

2008-09-06 Thread Chris Walker
Ondrej Certik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi David! On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 7:19 PM, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: There is a new list devoted to open source science, which might be of interest to some members of the debian-science list. To subscribe, visit

Re: A great list of scientific software

2008-08-19 Thread Chris Walker
picca [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le 13 Aug 2008 12:16:22 +0100, Chris Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : So AFAICT, other than the two packages mentioned above, anything packaged for ubuntu is also packaged for debian. It would be worth adding some packages to the debian-science

Re: A great list of scientific software

2008-08-14 Thread Chris Walker
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 07:14:15PM -0500, Ruben Molina wrote: and qgis because it had lots of bugs - see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=474604 I uploaded the latest version to mentors and I'm awaiting for comments from debian-gis :) Result!!! Thanks, Chris -- To

Re: A great list of scientific software

2008-08-13 Thread Chris Walker
Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Frederic Lehobey wrote: I plan to add such several lists worth of interest to some wiki page. By the way, with respect to Ubuntu-based efforts, notice there is also: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuScience

Re: A great list of scientific software

2008-08-13 Thread Chris Walker
Chris Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Frederic Lehobey wrote: I plan to add such several lists worth of interest to some wiki page. By the way, with respect to Ubuntu-based efforts, notice there is also: https

Re: Package categories

2008-08-08 Thread Chris Walker
Felipe Figueiredo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Monday 04 August 2008 13:58:51 Adam C Powell IV wrote: On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 19:28 +0100, Chris Walker wrote: Adam C Powell IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] These are some of the reasons I think keywords or tags are more appropriate

Re: Proposal: Bits from Debian-science

2008-08-02 Thread Chris Walker
Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 12:39:03AM +0100, Chris Walker wrote: Ondrej Certik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Christophe Prud'homme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the same time, I am wondering why abinit got uploaded

Re: Package categories

2008-08-02 Thread Chris Walker
Adam C Powell IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 11:02 +0100, Chris Walker wrote: And http://www.opennovation.org/ provides a much better categorisation of engineering type packages than I did. Categories there are: Partial Differential Equation (PDE) Solvers

Re: Package categories

2008-07-31 Thread Chris Walker
George Serbanut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi everyone, May I ask you what version of DFT you want to put into the repository? (The DFT++ coming from Cornell?) That's because I am interested in getting it (I was thinking to install it myself). I used DFT to mean Density Functional Theory.

Re: Package categories

2008-07-31 Thread Chris Walker
Felipe Figueiredo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 24 July 2008 03:29:00 Christophe Prud'homme wrote: === Finite Element Analysis === proposed -- field::physics:fea (it isn't clear to me that this should be in physics rather than engineering, so maybe field::fea would be

Re: [Pkg-scicomp-devel] joining debian-science and pkg-scicomp

2008-07-31 Thread Chris Walker
Frederic Lehobey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Chris Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2008-07-08 20:27:28) : On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 07:00:34PM +0200, Ondrej Certik wrote: On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Sylvestre Ledru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams

Proposal: Bits from Debian-science

2008-07-31 Thread Chris Walker
Ondrej Certik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Christophe Prud'homme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the same time, I am wondering why abinit got uploaded to pkg-scicomp without consulting the debichem team first? simple and honest answer: we didn't know about

Re: Package categories

2008-07-24 Thread Chris Walker
Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 07:03:58PM +0100, Chris Walker a écrit : The debtags available don't seem to have quite enough granularity - but perhaps I've missed something - so I've knocked up a very incomplete list of sections that packages might

wiki pages

2008-07-19 Thread Chris Walker
I have made a number of changes[1] to http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience - hopefully they are an improvement (and if anyone objects to the changes I have made, please let me know). Before I go much further, how do people see the role of the wiki - and in particular the individual subject

DebianScience Unofficial Repository

2008-07-12 Thread Chris Walker
While trying to update the DebianScience wiki, I have come across http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/UnofficialRepository. This proposes an unofficial repository for Debian Science. On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 06:03:06PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: On Sat, 12 Jul 2008, Chris Walker wrote: rant #1

Re: [Pkg-scicomp-devel] joining debian-science and pkg-scicomp

2008-07-08 Thread Chris Walker
Manuel Prinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am Dienstag, den 08.07.2008, 16:29 +0200 schrieb Sylvestre Ledru: Ondrej Certikwrote: is that it, or are there some more packages? More package are coming like Worldwind, Scilab, libmatio (for me) and other are managed under the git and svn

Re: [Pkg-scicomp-devel] joining debian-science and pkg-scicomp

2008-07-08 Thread Chris Walker
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 07:00:34PM +0200, Ondrej Certik wrote: On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Sylvestre Ledru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the long run I'd really love to see the clans unite and grew into one Debian Science team with specialized subgroups. But there is much more to do

Re: [Announce] New tasks web Bpages for all CDDs

2008-07-07 Thread Chris Walker
Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Felipe Figueiredo wrote: Am I missing something, or packages can't be in more than one category/task in this system? There is no reason thich prevents having a package in several tasks. Installing a metapackage for a

Maxima and Gerris packages in need of love and attention.

2008-07-05 Thread Chris Walker
I've just been through the physics packages (and some others I use) to see what state they are in, and found a couple of problem packages. Maxima (Symbolic Maths) The debian maxima package is in need of some care and attention if it is to be released with lenny. It has an RC bug filed that

Re: Bug#474909: Build maxima with sbcl for lenny?

2008-07-05 Thread Chris Walker
David Bremner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: maxima Version: 5.13.0-3.1 Followup-For: Bug #474909 Maybe this is the same bug as #467474? At least it looks the same to me. Although the build failure happens in a slightly different place for me, I still have a FTBFS with gcl

Re: Bug#474909: Build maxima with sbcl for lenny?

2008-07-05 Thread Chris Walker
David Bremner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip maxima problems] I have the feeling Camm (the maintainer) is really busy right now, but if you could OK the idea of building maxima with sbcl for lenny, that would be great. If that is the case, the RC bugs filed against the following of his

Re: [Announce] New tasks web Bpages for all CDDs

2008-07-02 Thread Chris Walker
Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to announce the new tasks pages generating system for the CDD tasks pages. I want you to hunt for bugs in these pages for about one week before I replace the old pages by the new ones. The link to wnpp bugs doesn't work on

Re: [Announce] New tasks web Bpages for all CDDs

2008-07-02 Thread Chris Walker
Chris Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Adam C Powell IV wrote: and others which are both (physics and engineering). The MATLAB/IDL like packages octave and scilab are which are both currently in Mathematics, should

Re: Package categories

2008-06-29 Thread Chris Walker
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 04:30:35PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, Chris Walker wrote: For example http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/physics.php lists packages to do Finite element analysis, optical simulation, xray absorption spectroscopy, ab inito quantum

Re: Package categories

2008-06-29 Thread Chris Walker
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 05:46:23PM +0100, chrisw wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 04:30:35PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, Chris Walker wrote: For example http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/physics.php lists packages to do Finite element analysis, optical

Re: soft for XRR

2007-10-15 Thread Chris Walker
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:32:55PM +0900, Yury Yuryev wrote: Does somebody know/use any soft for x-ray reflectometry? I am sorry I was not accurate. I mean soft for fitting/modeling of x-ray reflectivity from film or multilayer. Carlo Segre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi yury:

Re: ubuntu-science

2006-01-07 Thread Chris Walker
Jordan Mantha [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello everybody! My name is Jordan Mantha (LaserJock on irc, etc.) and I am a PhD grad student in Physical Chemistry. For the last few months I have been working with the Ubuntu universe repository maintainers (MOTU) [1] trying to make sure that

Re: publication quality graphs

2005-10-24 Thread Chris Walker
[snip overview of Publication quality graphing packages] Jamie Rollins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for the overview, Stuart. Very useful. Indeed it was. I would find this sort of comparison very useful on a web site. Perhaps it could be put on the wiki? Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,