Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Chris Walker wrote: > > > apbs Adaptive Poisson Boltzmann Solver in particular I don't know how > > to categorise. > > > > I have also included the abinitio package abinit and OpenMX - from the > > physics task, and the v-sim structure viewer (again from the physics > > task). Should these be added to the science-chemistry task? > > Well, there is certainly an overlap between physics and chemistry > as it is as well between chemistry and biology. But there is no > reason to not list a package in both sections. The sections just > assemble what chemistrist need for their work. Do you think there > is a reason to leave a package out because the package is needed > by physicists or biologists?
No. I think they should be included in the task package, but I'm a physicist and don't want to force my opinion on chemists. In addition to the task packages, I'd like to see a categorised list something like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuScience where packages are predominantly not repeated. I do wonder whether there might be some merit in splitting the support packages off[1] - the physics package contains 5 Matlab/IDL like packages[2], 3 symbolic maths packages[3], 2 data acquisition package and 1 gui package for fitting data - and clearly these have use in things like engineering. I don't think we should include every possible package in the task packages - I think we should only include those useful to a scientist doing research. If packages are obsolete or poor quality, we probably shouldn't include them in the tasks. Even better would be a review of the alternative packages that seem to do the same thing, but that sort of thing takes a lot of expertise to write. Chris [1] Perhaps the viewing package is the right place for this. [2] Should I add Yorick to these, or does it fit better with gnuplot,gri ? [3] maxima,sympy and axiom. I've just added axiom, but have noticed it on the RC bug list, so maybe I'd be better to remove it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
