On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Charles Plessy wrote:
only critisism I have on it is its name: I guess that it contains molecular biology software because it started with gene discovery on microbial genomes, ans I think that when seeing the URL, a lot of persons will think that it is related to medical bacteriology, and wil overlook it. On the other hand, on the main page, the link name is molecular biology, which makes more sense. So if you modify the debian-med structure one day, I think it would be worthwile try to solve this, but I suppose that changing the name now would break links and make this page lose readers instead of winning some.
Well, several months ago I suggested that we should start building such web pages automatically and started some very basic code (which is far from beeing usable and no chance of continuing this for some further months). The idea is as follows: 1) Obtain the contents of the first part of the web page by parsing Packages.gz file for a list of packages that should be listed on the page. 2) Use ddtp translations for translated pages. (Well, unfortunately the ddtp project is currently in a quite bad state. It was much more usable before the break into the Debian servers in the end of 2003. :-() 3) Build a "fake Package.gz" file containing the projects that should be included into Debian and into the CDD in question to build the list of projects with inofficial packages or are not yet packaged and use the algorithm from 1) to create the other part of the web page. If we would have such a system every project could easily build the web needed web pages by just compiling a list of projects that should be included. So if the only thing you do not like is the name of the page you could compile your own one by just renaming the list name (that might lead to a page name) and perhaps add or remove some projects. That way we will not double any work but gain maximum flexibility. The only problem is that someone has to write the code described roghly above ...
Thanks for the link (http://people.debian.org/~tille/cdd/). I guess I have to read it before answering. Anyway, I think that most of the work is not the meta-packaging, but to gather the software into debian.
Sure. Getting the software packaged is the precondition and this is the main goal. The meta-packages are just a nice tool to let users install what we gathered.
Also, I wonder how some existing packages could be tweaked. For instance, the search box of firefox can be used to query very relevant databases, such as pubmed.gov or genbank (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Genbank/),
You mean mozilla-biofox? I have to include this into the Debian-Med packages but this is more or less the only current pending change and seems to small for inclreasing the packages version for the moment.
and shipping this configuration by default would make senes on a CDD. Figuring out how to do this is definitely one of my goals.
If I did not misunderstood you installing mozilla-biofox package would be enough.
So I will subscribe to the debian-med list to avoid duplication of the work.
This might be a good idea. Kind regards and thanks for your input Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]