CP2K & debian
Hi,
I just noted a thread on 'Extensible Simulation Package for Research on
Soft matter'
(http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2009/02/msg00005.html).
I'm one of the developers of CP2K, and I believe there would be quite some
interest from our side to get it bundled with a linux distro. We truely
want CP2K to be free software, and easily available. CP2K builds and runs
out-of-the-box on recent Linux based computers, so it should be doable.
To answer Michael, CP2K is mature in the sense that there is plenty of
functionality that is actively used in research, and some of that
functionality is truely unique. At the same time, extensive testing makes
sure we rarely ever regress in quality.
A serious problem seems to be that we (the usual developers) have no idea
about what would be needed to facilitate packaging, and so far some
motivation has been lacking (building cp2k is easy no? ;-). However, if
anybody with real packaging experience would like to do some of the hard
work to get us on track, .... this is than welcome. I could help with
questions/advice, applying patches to CVS, ...
Cheers,
Joost VandeVondele
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