Hello, I landed here as well. Thanks Helen for the good talk at Debconf5 and for advertising this list. I've recently been working in the weather forecast world. Applications used over there are fortran (g77, now trying out gfortran), emacs, gnome, mozilla, openoffice, various custom software from different agencies around the world. OpenOffice Calc is both used for cheaply turning CSV imports into graphs, as well as to do quick and dirty tweaks of the data. There's been some excitement for automake/autoconf recently, after I've been giving a short introduction about them, as they solve a big deal of the problems of packaging their software (both in detecting dependencies and for automatically having a well behaved make install). rpm is also used over there to build packages: it's a Fedora world, and writing a spec file is easier than a debian/ directory. This allows them to turn their software, or the software they use, into a package, put it into an apt repository and use apt-get for fedora to update their machines. Is there anone else into metereology around? As to categorising (hi Thaddeus!) I really think Debtags needs work wrt science-related tags. That would not only improve Debtags, but it will also make Debian strongly visible as a distribution with a wide range and variety of scientific software. I'd be happy to assist, but I leave to someone else the task to come up with some initial set of categories to discuss. An initial read here can help: http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/paper-debtags.html#debtags-theoretical-foundations Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <enrico@debian.org>
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