Re: RFS: lmfit
Salut Thibaut:
Have you sent an ITP?
not yet
Unfortunately I don't think lmfit is... fit for Debian (yet): I
believe it is a Debian policy to not accept libraries which are not
used by any application in Debian.
I cannot believe that a useful math subroutine will be rejected just
because the natural way to package it happens to be a library.
Coudl you please show me where I can find the original wording of that policy ?
Furthermore, lmfit is only a tiny little bit of (useful) software. It
will have a hard time surviving this cruel world. If you want to
attract more users, I would suggest that you try to get it included in
a larger scientific library (e.g. the GSL).
Since a copuple of years, the lmfit source distribution is downloaded
more than a 100 times per month. So it's not only useful, it's actually
used, and survival is not an issue. Distributing it with Debian would
increase visibility and ease of installation, no more, no less.
Inclusion in a larger library is not a good advice, sorry for being
plain about that. lmfit is quite complementary to a huge project like
GSL, which actually has some Levenberg-Marquardt implementation of
its own. The advantages of lmfit are: (1) Very simple to use, thanks
to a very simple API. (2) Very old, stable, well documented algorithm,
very readable, all the mathematics in just one source file, no external
dependences. (3) Public domain.
Joachim
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