Re: ITP: mmass a Python-based mass spectrometry tool for proteomics

[Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org>]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:03:07AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Stephan Boettcher wrote:
>
>>> IMHO the user is not interested in what programming language a tool
>>> is written in
>>
>> That assumption may not hold for all users, especially in science, where
>> a lot of users are programmers, and where 'use' may involve programming.
>
> This "and where 'use' may involve programming" is the key point to understand
> my mail. *If* this is the case - and most probably the ITPer can decide
> it - than mentioning the programming language makes sense.  

Also, if the project in question is mainly dependent on user/developers
writing code/plugins to work fine (some window-managers come to mind),
mentioning the programming language in the long description looks fine,
like "Foo is extensible through python scripts/plugins.".

If this is mainly a end-user application, I don't think the programming
language should matter at all except in debtags.


Michael