From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F3LFp-0003yq-AT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:42:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k0TMfxcp001594; Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:41:59 GMT Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [216.148.227.153] (may be forged)) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k0TMfwXh015535 for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:41:58 GMT Received: from [24.21.55.62] (c-24-21-55-62.hsd1.or.comcast.net[24.21.55.62]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <20060129224156m1300ni8mfe>; Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:41:57 +0000 Message-ID: <43DD44B1.9000009@cesmail.net> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 14:41:53 -0800 From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060112) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-science@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] New category proposal - sci-vis References: <200511272053.49014.cryos@gentoo.org> <200601292116.42688.cryos@gentoo.org> <43DD3E86.9090206@gentoo.org> <200601292223.40607.cryos@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200601292223.40607.cryos@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a26aa062-06ea-4d60-98ec-37e9d9230a0a X-Archives-Hash: 384a2ff3f1feb1e0b6431908ed491876 I'd leave chemistry programs in the chemistry category. Same with biology, astronomy and mathematics. The new category fits well for things like graphviz and opendx. By the way, I don't know if I mentioned this but I took a course in Advanced R Programming the week before last. I am toying with the idea of trying to put together an ebuild schema/eclass for R packages, similar to what Dirk Eddelbuettel has done with Quantian for the Debian distro. Who's the current R guru amongst the developers? I can share notes if you're interested. Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: > On Sunday 29 January 2006 22:15, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > >> Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: >> >>> Just to confirm that I have added the new category and moved all the >>> applications that were in my list. Please let me know if there are any >>> that I have missed. Also let me know if you spot any issues with the move >>> that I might have missed. I went with the longer name as that was the >>> prevailing opinion (still preferred the short name myself). >>> >>> The category is intended for visualisation applications, so please don't >>> move any libraries such as plplot etc into there. I know there are also >>> some very hazy applications such as gmt which is now very generic and >>> used by many more people than just geo-sci folks. So I welcome discussion >>> on anything else you might feel should be moved. It is good having them >>> out of media-gfx though :) >>> >> Now the question is, can we put less general-purpose visualization >> programs there? For example, molecular graphics programs. >> > > I personally would say yes, and that is why I wanted to keep it general. > However I can see the argument for them going in sci-chemistry too. I was > tempted to put stuff like easychem in there as it has no real purpose other > than to draw chemical structures for print etc. I welcome the opinions of > others on this. > -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://linuxcapacityplanning.com -- gentoo-science@gentoo.org mailing list