On Jan 26, 2008 10:18 PM, David Bremner <
bremner@unb.ca> wrote:
>>>>> "Christophe" == Christophe Prud'homme <prudhomm@debian.org> writes:
Christophe> David,
>> Before we kill pkg-science, are people ok with pkg-scicomp
>> including e.g. graph theory? I.e. stuff outside the normal
>> "numerical" idea that some people have about scientific
>> computing? I certainly don't mind, but when I hear "scientific
>> computing", I think of numerics.
Christophe> I guess you are referring to metis and scotch. These
Christophe> software are actually quite important in numerical
Christophe> computations for example in mesh partitioning or
Christophe> linear algebra. Software/libraries like petsc,
Christophe> trilinos, suitesparse for example are using them and
Christophe> they are all about numerics.
No I was thinking more about software like polymake
(http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/polymake) nauty
(http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/nauty/) (which is not DFSG free, but for
sake illustrating the type of software) or latte
(http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~latte/).
The question I was trying ask is how broad the pkg-scicomp groups sees
its mandate.