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Jan,
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Jan Iven wrote:
> Dear all,
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> at the "Spring" Hepix conference in Karlsruhe, we had complaints that SL
> wasn't "scientific" enough, i.e. was missing several packages.
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> I had contacted several developers to see whether they could make
> +maintain SL versions (RPM+SRPM). Examples where there was some
> willingness are OpenScientist and GSL, with ROOT and GEANT4 at least not
> against the idea. I also have some things I prepared myself (xmgrace or
> (eventually) a recompilable CERNLIB), which currently would go into the
> CERN repository but are useful outside.
>
> The question is where to store these - I don't want such things to
> become "CERN"-additions, but to be available to the wider community. We
> could put them into the CERN "extras" repository and then mirror (I
> think Connie already takes things from there), but I think some specific
> section on scientificlinux.org would be more appropriate (including
> instructions for package authors).
Yes, we could put them in the contrib area, I agree that "documentation"
is needed for each of these. Currently we just put in a small README but
documentation on www.scientificlinux.org would be very useful.
We are also looking for a volunteer to be the "Scientific Applications"
coordinator .
>
> ?
> Jan
>
-Connie Sieh
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