Sponsor for distributed computation daemon: protein folding
Hi,
I have made a package for this distributed computation daemon, that
helps research on protein folding. I would be glad to get comments to
make it better. Would somebody be ready to sponsor me for applying as a
debian developer?
The original tar file is huge (22MB) because it contains the (big)
binaries for three architectures (i386, powerpc and hppa).
I made the daemon run as user daemon. Since the client needs to write in
the current directory, I made /usr/lib/distributed-folding/ a
daemon.daemon owned directory. The script to start the daemon is in
/usr/sbin. And of course there are init.d scripts to start and stop. Are
these good options?
The configuration uses debconf. I completely skip the built-in
configuration code, which is quite messy anyway.
My package is available at http://cristal.inria.fr/~bonniot/debian/
About the project itself, you can see http://www.distributedfolding.org
It's pretty exciting, because understanding protein folding might help
in curing several diseases like cancers and parkinson.
Thanks for your help,
Daniel Bonniot
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