On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 02:18:02PM +0100, David H. wrote:
> Dear selected community (tricky ehy...)
> 
> It know that Fink has had a significant impact on the scientific
> community. There are a couple of packages which are in darwinports but
> not inf Fink and I would like to get a handle on how popular those
> missing packages are in the scientific computing communtiy. Th elist
> is below, if you could comment, I would very much appreciate it.
> 
> mapm3 3
>     cli tool for calculating Quantitative

Fink's "mapmaker" package.

> pvm 3.4.5
>     pvm permits a network of computers to act as a cluster

People still use pvm? I think most work is now done with MPI
instead. Which fink appears to have (lammpi) but not the same
implementations as

> mpich 1.2.7
>     Message Passing Interface (MPI) Library
> mpich2 1.0.3
>     Message Passing Interface (MPI) Library
> openmpi 1.0.2
>     A High Performance Message Passing Library

Not that there isn't probably still PVM used in lots of existing code
though.

dan

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