Le Jeudi 28 Novembre 2002 16:27, G�tz Waschk a �crit : > Am Donnerstag, 28. November 2002, 10:10:37 Uhr MET, schrieb Austin Acton: > > I was really surprised! Are most developers 5 years behind the rest of > > us, or is it only the scientists? Do people LIKE building stuff from > > source, using freakish makefiles, ancient libraries, and static linking? > > I've experienced that scientists prefer specialized distributions > fitting their research needs. Maybe there's a chemistry distribution > you're not aware of that bundles the stuff you need?
I'm a scientist, and like Mandrake for its easy-to-use-although-serious feature. Scientists don't care about specialized distributions but care about having everything bundled. Mandrake is going in the right direction for that : pybliographer, xmgrace, xdrawchem, chemtool, ... And as far as i know, not so many chemical softwares are GPL, so it's better using the known one, and including the newest version. My 0.02eurocents Stef
