Re: RFC: new task-science package
Thanks for your feedback.
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 10:30:52AM -0500, Michael A. Miller wrote:
> I'm not sure it does either :) but it aught to include dx as
> well. Also xmgr, yorick, gist and others. There are lots of
I was not aware of dx, will check it out.
xmgr is dead, but continued as grace which _is_ in task-science's list. So
is yorick. And gist is part of yorick, isn't it?
> libraries and extensions that might want to be a part of
> task-science and offshoots - netcdf and hdf, a variety of fft
> libs, NumPy, BLT and many more. On top of that, a number of
As I wrote in my original email, libraries for scientific programming might
make for another task-science-programming. task-science itself will be for
binaries.
> things would tend to fall into multiple tasks - dx, yorick and
> octave could be included as part of plotting and numeric tasks.
>
> As scientist who primarily uses debian and other unix systems in
> the lab and on my desk, I've found task-science to be of limited
> use. Most of the things I use for distinctly "scientific" tasks
> are not in task-science. We already have a package system that
It's the old "but tasks are for newbies doing their first Debian installs".
Think of an incoming Master's student, not an outgoing PhD.
> As an example: task-fft could include fftw2, NumPy and a complete
Those are metapackages, and left for another discussion. My focus right now
is to get task-science into more useable shape.
Dirk
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