Yes. I´m interested. > Hi all, > > Here is a question for other HEP / nuclear physicists on the lists. > Please follow up only to debian-science. > > Needing to do some Monte Carlo simulations for the last bit of work on > my thesis, I was once again reminded how much of a pain compiling Geant4 > from source is. As a result I've spent some time over the last few days > Debianizing it. The packages are still very rough so I'm not making > them public (yet), but I am curious to know whether there is enough > interest in Geant 4 on Debian to make it worthwhile to eventually have > it in the official archive. > > The total installed size of the packages is 120 MB, not including the > data files [1]. I would be reluctant to put this huge chunk of code in > the archive unless there is a demand for it. (Plus *another* 100 MB for > James Ferrando's unofficial package of the CLHEP library, although this > could be reduced to 50 MB by including only the merged libCLHEP.so and > not the component libraries libCLHEP-<whatever>.so.) The Geant 4 > packages could be cut down from 120 to 97 MB by only distributing the > static libraries (upstream doesn't version the shared libraries so they > aren't very safe to use), but still! > > For comparison, in Sid, a reasonably complete OpenOffice.org 2 > installation from Debian packages is 200 MB, and tetex-bin + tetex-base > + tetex-extra is 127 MB -- both of these have a lot more users than > Geant 4 would. If there isn't enough desire for Geant 4 in Debian's > official archive, I might be able to keep unofficial .debs around in a > separate repository when they are more polished. I'll post occasional > updates on the progress of this to debian-science. > > > [1] The data files total 473 MB when uncompressed, and are probably > non-free. Fortunately they are optional. I would definitely not upload > them into Debian, but instead would create a "geant4-data-installer" > package in contrib that downloaded them from CERN's web site - let CERN > pay for the bandwidth! > > Happy Holidays to all, > > -- > Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department > WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University > GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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