Hi Martin,
I've packaged python-gsw and python-iapws97 for Debian and they've been there for a bit. I use them in my oceanography work. We should look for commonality in the packages. regards Alastair On 21/07/2015 17:53, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Martin, > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 11:24:08PM +0200, Martin Lord wrote: >> I have decided to teach myself C and about the steam tables I use for my >> daily work by programming a set of IAPWS - IF 97 steam tables. >> >> It is not yet complete but what I have so far is here. >> https://[email protected]/C4rnot/if97lib >> >> I was wondering how I might eventually go about making it available once >> done. Have I come to the right place? > I don't know what steam tables are but if it is something you want to > provide as Debian packages you might be at the right place. > >> There is actually a set of steam tables called Freesteam written already by >> Jon Pye, which I believe is under a GPL licence (sourceforge is down today >> so I can't actually open its homepage a the moment to confirm) and includes >> bindings for Python and Ascend which you might consider packaging. > To my experience it is not very promising to wait until somebody else > has done the packaging work. However, if you have precise questions > about packaging you can get help here. > >> I had some difficulty getting the .deb provided by freesteam to work on >> Ubuntu, as there appeared to be something wrong with the Ascend package >> (which I apt-got) on Ubuntu, but it worked when I compiled it (without the >> ascend bindings) rather than installing the .deb > Could you provide a link to the source package (*.dsc) of what you > tried to install? > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > -- Alastair McKinstry, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, https://diaspora.sceal.ie/u/amckinstry Misentropy: doubting that the Universe is becoming more disordered. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
