On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Juan Courcoul wrote: > Given that we have here a large community of experienced programmers in > both the Unix and the Mac worlds, has anybody in contact with the folks > at UC Berkeley offered to build a version of the SETI screensaver and/or > command-line martiancatcher optimized for the PPC G4 architecture ?
You mean an optimized version beyond the OSX console mode Seti cruncher that's already available? Are you sure that it isn't in fact optimized for G4 already? I don't think a distributed scientific application like Seti (or Folding at Home, or for that matter Distributed.net) is really appropriate for open source distribution [e.g. via Fink], just because the scientific integrity of the project depends on knowing that all of the clients were not tampered with, even if with good intentions. They need to know that these clients produce consistent output, and can't devote the time to auditing possibly thousands of subtle variants of the codebase. Obviously not everyone sees things that way -- the d.net folks are open source, and have done some impressive crypto work with their project -- but I think the Seti people do seem to be concerned about this issue. I wouldn't expect an open, Finkable version of S@h to ever be available. On the other hand, you're welcome to get in touch with them about a version optimized version for the G4 architecture, but I bet that if they were to take an interest in this, they'd have to make it themselves. C'est la seti. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ "More war soon. You know how it is." -- mnftiu.cc _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
