Hi, Why using Debian and not another distro? Its a voluntary project without comercial interests. I like this philosophy and it seems to function quite well regarding its quality and as Debian is the mother of many other distros. I would like to see some more software concerning the topics I am working on. My main activitities are on heat transfer and fluid mechanics problems. Mostly to laboratory experimental techniques, but also on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD, i.e. computer simulations of heat and fluid flows). I already have made some contributions to Open Source Software and Debian as I am upstream developer of Gpiv c.s., of which I also have submitted the debian packages (Unfortunately, no sponsor found for new upstream release). Since recently I am also working with the OpenFoam software, a CFD package. I think it would be a good idea to have this software in Debian as well. Compiling and installing of this package is very complex and therefore a large amount of mails at the forums of this software is dedicated to the installation. The building system seems to be quite old and may need an upgrade, like with cmake, before it might be possible to debianize the software. Also the package includes other, third party software that is already in Debian (like openmpi) or somebody is working on it (paraview). These should be removed from the upstream source. Because of time restrictions I'd prefer to work on my own (upstream and debian packages) Gpiv c.s and to start with the debianizing OpenFoam than going through a NM process. Hopefully there will be DD's who are willing to upload these packages, because it is very frustrating to do a big efford which finally turns out is not appreciated. Thanks, Gerber -- developer of Gpiv: software for Particle Image Velocimetry URL: http:/gpiv.sourceforge.net GnuPG fingerprint: BF0A BBFE 5623 9761 C9E1 7C82 8B08 F586 D39A 2B64
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