Hi all, Andreas, sorry for CCing you, I thought you were interested in this topic since I have proposed to package it in my previous mail [1].
I think it could be interesting in Debian Med since this software is used for in biomedical research (e.g. some examples of current course/workshop presenting OpenBUGS [2,3]) Moreover it seem to have some interest [4,5]. The paper [6] published in "Statistics in Medicine" seem to be cited more than 560 times on Google scholar and 80 times on PubMed and the paper [7] about the original version (only available on MS Windows) is cited more than 2680 times on Google scholar. As OpenBUGS is a statistical software, maybe it is better if I propose this package to Debian Science? Best regards, Dylan [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2014/03/msg00222.html [2] http://www.crfr.ac.uk/bayesian-disease-mapping/ [3] http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/phs/news/SummerInstitute_2014.pdf [4] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/191101 [5] https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=BUGS [6] Lunn, D., Spiegelhalter, D., Thomas, A. and Best, N. (2009) The BUGS project: Evolution, critique and future directions (with discussion), Statistics in Medicine 28: 3049--3082. [7] Lunn, D.J., Thomas, A., Best, N., and Spiegelhalter, D. (2000) WinBUGS -- a Bayesian modelling framework: concepts, structure, and extensibility. Statistics and Computing, 10:325--337. 2014-05-19 8:14 GMT+02:00 Andreas Tille <[email protected]>: > Hi Dylan, > > On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 06:36:59PM +0200, Dylan wrote: > > Hi Andreas, > > I have some doubts about the packaging of OpenBUGS > > I have not even thought about this software. Why do you think this is a > topic for Debian Med? > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > PS: There is no reason in CCing me. :-) > > > which are already > > mentioned in the Fedora mailing list [1] and quickly in the Debian > Science > > mailing list [2]. > > > > To summarize, the main issue is about the core of OpenBUGS > (libOpenBUGS.so) > > because it is written in Object Pascal which requires a compiler > framework > > only available on MS Windows (Black Box). In the "source code" available > on > > their website, "libOpenBUGS.so" is given as binary already compiled. > > > > I don't know Debian opinion about this issue. Maybe it is possible to > > package libOpenBUGS.so as "non-free" and others OpenBUGS components as > > "contrib"? Or it's unimaginable to have this software in Debian > repository? > > > > Best regards, > > Dylan > > > > > > [1] > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-June/152747.html > > [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2008/12/msg00107.html > > -- > http://fam-tille.de >
