*Troy smacks his head*

Yet another case of 'reply-to-All' versus 'Reply-To'

Well, I guess the cat's out of the bag ... but let me do a more formal post.

Troy

Troy Dawson wrote:
> Fernando Avila Castro wrote:
> 
>>     I have built packages for Scientific Python 
>> (http://www.scipy.org/) for SL 3.0.4
>>     Also, I made some useful companions such matplotlib, gnuplot-py 
>> and numarray (rebuilt for use with ATLAS).
>>
>>     It's not perfect yet, as you'll need numeric (easily obtanained 
>> from dag repository, and install pylab.py in 
>> /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/
>> in a manual way (solved in python2.3). You will also need to deinstall 
>> lapack and blas, as it conflicts with ATLAS.
>>
>>     You can get them at
>>     ftp://danny.astro.uson.mx/UNIX/SL
> 
> 
> Hello,
> I'm sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you about this.  But I've 
> been debating what to do with various small groups of rebuilt rpm's such 
> as yours.
> It's sort of a tricky position.  We definatly want more scientific 
> packages such as what you packaged.  We also want to make sure that 
> nobody put's in something that not be licensed, or even worse, has 
> something like a trojan in it.
> Anyway, I think we've figured out a process.
> 
> First, we're going to have a 'community' section.  This will be links to 
> various web pages, package repositories (such as yours), articles, and 
> other things that arn't done by the official S.L. developers, but done 
> by various community members.
> 
> Second, if a person want's their package to get into the contrib 
> section, they need to sign both the rpm and the srpm, so that both can 
> be posted up in the contrib area.
> 
> Third, if a package in contrib is wanted by the S.L. community, does not 
> conflict with packages already in S.L., and a person is willing to 
> maintain it, then we'll move it into the main release.
> 
> So, anyway.  What I would like to ask you, is if we could put a link to 
> your ftp area in our community section of the Scientific Linux web site?
> 
> Thanks
> Troy Dawson


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