Re: [gentoo-user] Packaging ASL

[Andrew Savchenko]

On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 07:18:58 -0600 Jc García wrote:
> 2015-07-21 5:41 GMT-06:00 Zeev Pekar :
> > Dear Gentoo Developers,
> >
> > We have just released the version 0.1.4 of ASL - Advanced Simulation
> > Library .
> >
> > May I ask somebody to volunteer to package it for Gentoo?
> >
> > Packaging efforts for other distros are underway and probably can be
> > helpful for Gentoo [1].
> 
> Really interesting library, but I doubt you will get what you expect
> in this list, neither in the -dev list because as it is a library and
> AFAIK there's no applications requiring it, I doubt they'll want to
> add it to the main repository, but sure there's a place in gentoo for
> the library, the gentoo-science project[1], you can try create a
> github issue[2] requesting the add of the library there. You could
> also find more folks interested in it, this list I would say is mostly
> sysadmin/troubled-user stuff. If I find time I might try to make the
> ebuild and send pull request to the science repo, but I haven't
> learned much about CMake, so I would have to learn a bit more about it
> first.
> 
> Regards, and thank you for the spread of such Important type software
> in a FOSS way.
> 
> [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Science
> [2] https://github.com/gentoo-science/sci (If you check the commits
> log you'll see that it is a very alive repo)

I added sci-libs/asl-0.1.4 to the science overlay. Enjoy!

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko


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Re: [gentoo-user] Packaging ASL

[Zeev Pekar]

On Tue, 2015-07-21 at 07:18 -0600, Jc García wrote:
> 2015-07-21 5:41 GMT-06:00 Zeev Pekar :
> > Dear Gentoo Developers,
> >
> > We have just released the version 0.1.4 of ASL - Advanced Simulation
> > Library .
> >
> > May I ask somebody to volunteer to package it for Gentoo?
> >
> > Packaging efforts for other distros are underway and probably can be
> > helpful for Gentoo [1].
> 
> Really interesting library, but I doubt you will get what you expect
> in this list, neither in the -dev list because as it is a library and
> AFAIK there's no applications requiring it, I doubt they'll want to
> add it to the main repository, but sure there's a place in gentoo for
> the library, the gentoo-science project[1], you can try create a
> github issue[2] requesting the add of the library there. You could
> also find more folks interested in it, this list I would say is mostly
> sysadmin/troubled-user stuff. If I find time I might try to make the
> ebuild and send pull request to the science repo, but I haven't
> learned much about CMake, so I would have to learn a bit more about it
> first.
> 
> Regards, and thank you for the spread of such Important type software
> in a FOSS way.
> 
> [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Science
> [2] https://github.com/gentoo-science/sci (If you check the commits
> log you'll see that it is a very alive repo)

I don't think CMake should be an issue, check our Quick Start guide:

http://asl.org.il/documentation/

I also opened an issue, which might serve as central point to coordinate
packaging efforts:

https://github.com/gentoo-science/sci/issues/452

Thank you!
Zeev

Re: [gentoo-user] Packaging ASL

[Zeev Pekar]

On Tue, 2015-07-21 at 16:55 +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 07:18:58 -0600 Jc García wrote:
> > 2015-07-21 5:41 GMT-06:00 Zeev Pekar :
> > > Dear Gentoo Developers,
> > >
> > > We have just released the version 0.1.4 of ASL - Advanced Simulation
> > > Library .
> > >
> > > May I ask somebody to volunteer to package it for Gentoo?
> > >
> > > Packaging efforts for other distros are underway and probably can be
> > > helpful for Gentoo [1].
> > 
> > Really interesting library, but I doubt you will get what you expect
> > in this list, neither in the -dev list because as it is a library and
> > AFAIK there's no applications requiring it, I doubt they'll want to
> > add it to the main repository,
> 
> There is no rule forbidding to have library with zero consumers in
> the main repository. As long, as someone maintains it.
> 
> > but sure there's a place in gentoo for
> > the library, the gentoo-science project[1], you can try create a
> > github issue[2] requesting the add of the library there. You could
> > also find more folks interested in it, this list I would say is mostly
> > sysadmin/troubled-user stuff.
> 
> I agree, on science overlay there are more interested people.
> Mail to gentoo-science and gentoo-physics lists. I'm working on
> another branch of physics, so I'm not sure I'll be able to test
> this library thorough, though.

Even just packaging will be great contribution. Thank you for tips -
I'll mail also to the both lists.

> Note to Zeev: if you're interested in packaging by various
> distributions, try to make their job easier. A quick check shows
> that there are version constrains on dependencies, e.g. >=vtk-6.1,
> but they're not mentioned in the documentation. Fixing this will
> save people from digging into cmake files.

Fixed: http://asl.org.il/documentation/

Zeev

Re: [gentoo-user] Packaging ASL

[Andrew Savchenko]

On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 07:18:58 -0600 Jc García wrote:
> 2015-07-21 5:41 GMT-06:00 Zeev Pekar :
> > Dear Gentoo Developers,
> >
> > We have just released the version 0.1.4 of ASL - Advanced Simulation
> > Library .
> >
> > May I ask somebody to volunteer to package it for Gentoo?
> >
> > Packaging efforts for other distros are underway and probably can be
> > helpful for Gentoo [1].
> 
> Really interesting library, but I doubt you will get what you expect
> in this list, neither in the -dev list because as it is a library and
> AFAIK there's no applications requiring it, I doubt they'll want to
> add it to the main repository,

There is no rule forbidding to have library with zero consumers in
the main repository. As long, as someone maintains it.

> but sure there's a place in gentoo for
> the library, the gentoo-science project[1], you can try create a
> github issue[2] requesting the add of the library there. You could
> also find more folks interested in it, this list I would say is mostly
> sysadmin/troubled-user stuff.

I agree, on science overlay there are more interested people.
Mail to gentoo-science and gentoo-physics lists. I'm working on
another branch of physics, so I'm not sure I'll be able to test
this library thorough, though.

Note to Zeev: if you're interested in packaging by various
distributions, try to make their job easier. A quick check shows
that there are version constrains on dependencies, e.g. >=vtk-6.1,
but they're not mentioned in the documentation. Fixing this will
save people from digging into cmake files.

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko


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Re: [gentoo-user] Packaging ASL

[Jc García]

2015-07-21 5:41 GMT-06:00 Zeev Pekar :
> Dear Gentoo Developers,
>
> We have just released the version 0.1.4 of ASL - Advanced Simulation
> Library .
>
> May I ask somebody to volunteer to package it for Gentoo?
>
> Packaging efforts for other distros are underway and probably can be
> helpful for Gentoo [1].

Really interesting library, but I doubt you will get what you expect
in this list, neither in the -dev list because as it is a library and
AFAIK there's no applications requiring it, I doubt they'll want to
add it to the main repository, but sure there's a place in gentoo for
the library, the gentoo-science project[1], you can try create a
github issue[2] requesting the add of the library there. You could
also find more folks interested in it, this list I would say is mostly
sysadmin/troubled-user stuff. If I find time I might try to make the
ebuild and send pull request to the science repo, but I haven't
learned much about CMake, so I would have to learn a bit more about it
first.

Regards, and thank you for the spread of such Important type software
in a FOSS way.

[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Science
[2] https://github.com/gentoo-science/sci (If you check the commits
log you'll see that it is a very alive repo)

[gentoo-user] Packaging ASL

[Zeev Pekar]

Dear Gentoo Developers,

We have just released the version 0.1.4 of ASL - Advanced Simulation
Library .

May I ask somebody to volunteer to package it for Gentoo?

Packaging efforts for other distros are underway and probably can be
helpful for Gentoo [1].

Thank you,
Zeev
--
In short about the library:
It is an OpenCL-based multiphysics simulation software that can be
deployed (besides CPU) on different massively parallel architectures
like GPUs, FPGAs, DSPs etc. and covers a variety of physical and
chemical
phenomena. It can be utilized in a number of fields:

- CFD: http://asl.org.il/benchmarks/multicomponent_flow/
- image-guided surgery: http://avtechscientific.com/cryovision
- crystal growth:
https://github.com/AvtechScientific/ASL/blob/master/examples/levelSet/levelSetFacetedGrowth.cc
- virtual sensing (i.a. medical): http://avtechscientific.com/brainshift
- R&D of biomed devices (i.a. microfluidics):
http://avtechscientific.com/focus
- etc., etc..
--

[1]:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libasl/
https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/lupinix/ASL/
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:ealin:physics/ASL
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-science/packages/asl.git/