Hi > Unfortunately I tend to differ. Will they use the support is a big > question. > Yes, Obviously they wish to use the support. Meteorology is a huge area of work and I am sure they would have huge programs to support their activities. NWP group has taken out the tender to use the compiler to serve all their requirements across many locations.
> If they use GCC they may not need support as things would have been done > already. > What things would have been done already? Their tender says that it should be able to compile the WRF model latest version (along with components) which itself is a work in progress. There maybe bugs in it which the person getting tender has to help sort out. These work stations are communicating with some high end servers where models will be running. In different locations support will have to be provided which costs money. > Except for one all other packages are already available in Ubuntu > repository. All open source applications do compile with gcc even if not > available in the repository. > Support is always a requirement when so many tools are there and where the projects have to be supported for an extended period like 5 years. Migration etc is not easy. Nothing wrong in people being available for sorting out problems. We should be glad NWP is using FOSS components. Read the last two pages of the tender. Their requirement is clearly written and It is obvious that the support needs money. The software can be free (as in free beer) but the support is not. Giving support for huge projects is not trivial which needs investments in infrastructure and manpower. Regards Gajendra -- -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Linux User Group @ IIT Delhi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
