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Re: Packaging "The Molecular Modelling Toolkit"



Heya,

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:18:46AM +0200, Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote:
> Le Wed, 21 Sep 2011 08:47:42 +0200,
> Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> a écrit :
> 
> > Hi Frédéric-Emmanuel,
> 
> Hi Andreas.
>  
> > when watching Debian Science commit list I learned that you are
> > working on packaging
> > 
> >   http://dirac.cnrs-orleans.fr/MMTK/
> 
> Yes, the upstream is working In my laboratory. He is also the upstream
> of python-scientific (orphaned). I did not yet fill an ITP for mmtk.
> But it is in preparation.

You should probably do that.  I was considering packaging it the other
day but then more or less by accident saw your mmtk commits in
debian-science.

Anyway, great that you package it, and yeah, I think it should be part
of some Debichem task as well at one point.

About the description, I would not worry too much; what I am trying to
do for debichem is roughly this:

1. Use the expanded name as short description, if is some acronym
("Molecular Modelling Toolkit" would fit OK I gues).

2. Introduce it with one or two sentences, where I try to keep the first
sentence so that it can be at least possibly understood by
non-scientists.

3. List the features/capabilities as bullet points (only the major ones,
and not things like "It is written in C++" or "It is GPL" or "It is
super-fast").

4. If applicable, list the file formats the program can read or write.



Michael


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