This is exciting. I'm happy to move the code at https://github.com/rmcgibbo/openmm-debpackaging. I just put it there so I didn't lose it.
-Robert On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Yutong, > > thanks for your quick reply. > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 09:28:19AM -0800, Yutong Zhao wrote: > > We're super excited to get OpenMM as part of the debian repos. > > :-) > > > To address your concerns: > > > > 1. Source files can be directly obtained from > > https://github.com/simtk/openmm. Releases are tagged at > > https://github.com/SimTk/openmm/releases. It should be simple to setup a > > watch script to monitor new tags/releases via github. > > That's fine. > > > We currently > > distribute pre-built binaries from simtk.org, but it sounds like you > guys > > plan to build from source anyways. > > Every Debian package will be (and needs to be) build from source. > > > 2. We're OK with what ever deployment/maintenance options you think is > best > > (Alioth, etc.). Having Debian download statistics would be really nice. > > As I said popularity contest is more about real usage (and not inly > downloaded and deleted afterwards or installed but never used the > binaries). > > > 3. We'd be happy to work with whoever (Steffan, CCed) > > Steffen reads both lists. :-) > > > to get this pushed > > through. Thanks for volunteering to do the initial inject. > > No problem. I'll let you know sson. > > > Some questions on our end: > > > > 1. Does getting this into DebianMed/DebiChem mean that users on > > ubuntu/debian will be able to simply do apt-get install openmm to fetch > the > > package (without needing to add additional sources, etc.)? > > Debian Med as well as DebiChem *is* actually pure Debian. We are just > projects (so called Debian Pure Blends) *inside* Debian caring for > medical+biological resp. chemical software. We are uploading straigt > to debian.org and Ubuntu will fetch from there in their 6 month sync > cycle. > > > 2. What additional steps do we need to take on our end? Is > > https://github.com/rmcgibbo/openmm-debpackaging sufficient? > > For the moment yes. I'd welcome if you become a member of the project > we finally decide to put the package into and than you can commit your > changes to git.debian.org. This would be more convenient and > transparent. > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > -- > http://fam-tille.de >
