On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:48 AM, James Kyle <[email protected]> wrote:
> Morning, > > I'm new to the the macports dev list, but I've been actively maintaining a > chunk of ports for about a year now and patching for longer (commit request > pending). > > I'd like to propose a new collaboration group called Mac Science that > would, in spirit, be very similar to the Debian Science initiative. > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience > > My incentive for this proposal is due to three observations I've made as > mac desktop user and researcher. I also have a moderate level of confidence > that I could enlist some level of direct apple support or collaboration in > the project. > > I welcome any and all feedback in the matter, both positive and negative. > :) > > > I'll outline my incentives for the proposal below. > > Issue: > "Holes" in the science library. This isn't necessarily a macports issue. > Currently, there is no one-stop answer to a curious researcher on where to > go for his science apps. MacPorts provides some but not by any means all of > the usual suspects for computational work. Especially some of the more > specialized libraries. In considering how to introduce scientists to macports, this GUI is very helpful: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/development_tools/porticus.html This GUI provides a nice interface for those users who are not familiar with the terminal. The ports are listed by category, including a science category. It's not clear to me how the categories are defined (they could be based on the port tree categories or on each Portfile entry for "categories"). Regards, Darren
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