Re: debian-science and science-* packages
On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 14:34 +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote:
> Le 27 août 07 à 08:04, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> >
> >> * The `-astronomy' package should also depend on what-ever
...
> > while the later contains developent libraries etc. In this case
> > most probably IDL would go into the science-astronomy-dev dependency
> > list.
> >
>
> I think not, it's an interpreted language.
Just goes to show how much I know :-) But, isn't there a (proprietary)
compiler for IDL?
> I would compare with
> Yorick (which I know better ;-) : the yorick-dev package contains
> what you need to develop yorick plugins,
Is that compiled "Yorick" or compiled C/C++/... ?
> On the other hand, IDL/GDL, yorick and a few others are really
> general tools, so a "science-general" or "-common" could be a better
> idea.
Erhm, doesn't that really depend on use-cases. For example, I've never
heard of people using Yorick or IDL in High Energy Physics (HEP), but I
know the astronomers swear by IDL, and more or less vice versa for C++.
Python seems to be popular in some areas of HEP, and Ruby has some users
too. The HEP theorists use what-ever symbolic manipulation they can get
their hands on, since they are mostly doing Mathematics anyways (in some
M-dimensional space un-fathomable and un-measurable to anyone but the
theorists themselves :-)
The problem could be, that `-physics' is just a tad too broad - maybe
(and only maybe) it needs to be split up into parts (-nanoscience, -hep,
-theory, -bio, -solid, ...) with some `-physics-common' recommended
package. A further complication is, that at least in some sub-branches,
there's a major difference in what experimentalist and theorists use.
Experimentalists will probably get the `-dev' packages much more often
than the theorists.
On the other hand we could also use the DebTAGS mechanism more
aggressively. In fact, we could use the DebTAGS as a "voting machine"
for what goes were, with the added benefit that the tags will be there
to be used.
Just my 2 ¢
Yours,
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