[gentoo-dev] RFC: New category - sci-visualization

[gentoo-dev] RFC: New category - sci-visualization

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

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I propose creating a new category, sci-visualization, to house scientific 
visualization applications. There are at least 17 applications I have 
identified which are already in the tree that could be moved. Many of them 
are in media-gfx with photo applications etc. They are all taken care of by 
the scientific application herd.

The category is kept intentionally broad to include applications such as 
grace, qtiplot and gnuplot which visualise 2/3D data, gwyddion and gxsm which 
visualise SPM data. There are some data mining applications (getting data 
points from published graphs) that would fit in here quite nicely too. This 
has already been discussed on the gentoo-science list and I put it to the 
wider Gentoo community before adding the new category and moving any ebuilds.

Thanks,

Marcus

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: New category - sci-visualization

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

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On Saturday 14 January 2006 15:01, Marcus D. Hanwell wrote:
> I propose creating a new category, sci-visualization, to house scientific
> visualization applications. There are at least 17 applications I have
> identified which are already in the tree that could be moved. Many of them
> are in media-gfx with photo applications etc. They are all taken care of by
> the scientific application herd.

Just to reply to myself as there were no objections I have now added this new 
category. All the scientific visualisation applications I could spot have 
been moved already. Only applications are intended to live there, and there 
are a couple I intend to add in the next few weeks. Hopefully this hasn't 
caused any problems for anyone.

Thanks.

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