Re: Proposal and questions about chemistry Debian packages

1997-08-11 Thread jghasler
Hamish Moffatt writes: Similarly I have some ideas for some electronics packages (mostly related to microcontrollers/microprocessors); there is one or two similar packages at present; is there sufficient interest for me to do some? I'm interested. -- John HaslerThis posting is

Re: Proposal and questions about chemistry Debian packages

1997-08-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Aug 08, 1997 at 11:51:05AM +0200, Frits Daalmans wrote: I have some questions regarding Debian's attitude towards scientific programs. [...] Now my questions are these: - there is no section for chemistry or quantum chemistry yet in the Debian distribution. Do you think there would

Proposal and questions about chemistry Debian packages

1997-08-08 Thread Frits Daalmans
Hello all, I have some questions regarding Debian's attitude towards scientific programs. First an introduction: In the Computational Chemistry mailing-list (listserv is [EMAIL PROTECTED], archived at ccl.osc.edu and http://ccl.osc.edu/chemistry.html) there are lately more and more questions

Re: Proposal and questions about chemistry Debian packages

1997-08-08 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Frits Daalmans wrote: Hello all, I have some questions regarding Debian's attitude towards scientific programs. [...] Now my questions are these: - there is no section for chemistry or quantum chemistry yet in the Debian distribution. Do you think there would be

Re: Proposal and questions about chemistry Debian packages

1997-08-08 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: I think that the section should be for scientific programs in general. Yes, with GIS packages included: - Vis5d - available in Red Hat I think. - grass - ... Peter -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: Proposal and questions about chemistry Debian packages

1997-08-08 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hello Frits! I don't know anything about quantum chem. at all. But I understand, that you want to become a Debian maintainer of chemical packages. First, you have to install, read and understand the debian-policy. It is a seperate debian package. Then you have to learn, how to build a debian

Re: Proposal and questions about chemistry Debian packages

1997-08-08 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
--- Frits Daalmans wrote: ...have recently obtained a new program for molecular modelling. It was produced under the GPL and (very well) written in C (IMHO). ... - If I contact the author of this 'moldy' program, Keith Refson, and ask his permission to compile and package it for Linux (only i386

Re: Proposal and questions about chemistry Debian packages

1997-08-08 Thread Ciccio
I think that the section should be for scientific programs in general. Yes, with GIS packages included: - Vis5d - available in Red Hat I think. - grass grass is huge and seems not to be maintained anymore (anybody willing to bring 100M source to our century?) Also, almost no

Re: Proposal and questions about chemistry Debian packages

1997-08-08 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Ciccio wrote: I think that the section should be for scientific programs in general. Yes, with GIS packages included: - Vis5d - available in Red Hat I think. - grass grass is huge and seems not to be maintained anymore (anybody willing to bring 100M source to our