Re: Package categories

2008-08-08 Thread Chris Walker
Felipe Figueiredo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Monday 04 August 2008 13:58:51 Adam C Powell IV wrote: On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 19:28 +0100, Chris Walker wrote: Adam C Powell IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] These are some of the reasons I think keywords or tags are more appropriate

Re: Package categories

2008-08-08 Thread Frederic Lehobey
Hi, Chris Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2008-08-08 08:14:04) : Felipe Figueiredo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How about using a standard library's (those with shelves and dead-tree books) classification system? This kind of problem should be solved by now, right? There should be an easy way

Re: Package categories

2008-08-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Frederic Lehobey wrote: There is also some stuff around Wikipedia. My main motto: let's not reinvent the wheel. ACK. An please try to avoid making a science of it how to classify packages. It might be a really interesting topic but I would not be happy if this is

Re: Package categories

2008-08-05 Thread Felipe Figueiredo
On Monday 04 August 2008 13:58:51 Adam C Powell IV wrote: On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 19:28 +0100, Chris Walker wrote: Adam C Powell IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 11:02 +0100, Chris Walker wrote: And http://www.opennovation.org/ provides a much better categorisation of

Re: Package categories

2008-08-04 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 19:28 +0100, Chris Walker wrote: Adam C Powell IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 11:02 +0100, Chris Walker wrote: And http://www.opennovation.org/ provides a much better categorisation of engineering type packages than I did. Categories

Re: Re: Package categories

2008-08-04 Thread Dominique Belhachemi
On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 19:28 +0100, Chris Walker wrote: If there is an obvious set of tags, can you suggest them here. I've extended Adam's list a little bit. * PDE-solver * finite-elements * boundary-elements * finite-differences * integrated-mesher *

Re: Package categories

2008-08-02 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 07:20:54PM -0430, Muammar El Khatib wrote: Are you sure about this? I mean as far as I have studied, DFT is not considered as Ab Initio (some people say yes, others no). Maybe calculation quality is as good as Ab Initio (DFT takes care about electronic correlation) but

Re: Package categories

2008-08-02 Thread Chris Walker
Adam C Powell IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 11:02 +0100, Chris Walker wrote: And http://www.opennovation.org/ provides a much better categorisation of engineering type packages than I did. Categories there are: Partial Differential Equation (PDE) Solvers

Re: Package categories

2008-08-01 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 11:02 +0100, Chris Walker wrote: Adam C Powell IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 13:44 +0100, Chris Walker wrote: Christophe Prud'homme [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Salome to my knowledge Salome does not provide a fe code ! AFAICT

Re: Package categories

2008-07-31 Thread Chris Walker
George Serbanut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi everyone, May I ask you what version of DFT you want to put into the repository? (The DFT++ coming from Cornell?) That's because I am interested in getting it (I was thinking to install it myself). I used DFT to mean Density Functional Theory.

Re: Package categories

2008-07-31 Thread Chris Walker
Felipe Figueiredo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 24 July 2008 03:29:00 Christophe Prud'homme wrote: === Finite Element Analysis === proposed -- field::physics:fea (it isn't clear to me that this should be in physics rather than engineering, so maybe field::fea would be

Re: Package categories

2008-07-29 Thread George Serbanut
Hi everyone, May I ask you what version of DFT you want to put into the repository? (The DFT++ coming from Cornell?) That's because I am interested in getting it (I was thinking to install it myself). Thanks! Cheers, George On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 2:50 AM, Muammar El Khatib [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Package categories

2008-07-28 Thread Muammar El Khatib
Hi, I'm sorry if maybe this would be a little bit off topic. However, I cannot talk to many people about Quantum mechanics :) So here I go. Michael Banck wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 07:03:58PM +0100, Chris Walker wrote: == Chemistry === field::chemistry === Structure calculation ===

Re: Package categories

2008-07-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Michael Banck wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 07:03:58PM +0100, Chris Walker wrote: === Structure calculation === Abinitio Semi Empirical === Molecular graphics === So we would have four categories for DebiChem? Certainly the chemistry stuff

Re: Package categories

2008-07-26 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 07:03:58PM +0100, Chris Walker wrote: == Chemistry === field::chemistry === Structure calculation === Abinitio (should DFT be listed separately here? DFT is ab initio, despite all rumours. Abinit (currently under physics) MPQC psi Semi

Re: Package categories

2008-07-25 Thread Felipe Figueiredo
On Thursday 24 July 2008 03:29:00 Christophe Prud'homme wrote: === Finite Element Analysis === proposed -- field::physics:fea (it isn't clear to me that this should be in physics rather than engineering, so maybe field::fea would be better) In the particular example of FE, it's made in a

Re: Package categories

2008-07-24 Thread Christophe Prud'homme
=== Finite Element Analysis === proposed -- field::physics:fea (it isn't clear to me that this should be in physics rather than engineering, so maybe field::fea would be better) agreed or field::engineering::fea if field::engineering exists note that it could also fit in math / numerical

Re: Package categories

2008-07-24 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 13:44 +0100, Chris Walker wrote: Christophe Prud'homme [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Salome to my knowledge Salome does not provide a fe code ! AFAICT from http://www.salome-platform.org/home/presentation/overview/ while salome doesn't perform FEA calculations, it

Re: Package categories

2008-07-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 02:30:04PM +0100, Chris Walker a écrit : Is kst [A KDE application used for displaying scientific data] incorrectly tagged? In my opinion, yes. The drawback with Debtags is that tagging is anonymous, so we can't discuss with the person who tagged kst Field::Chemistry.

Re: Package categories

2008-07-24 Thread Chris Walker
Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 07:03:58PM +0100, Chris Walker a écrit : The debtags available don't seem to have quite enough granularity - but perhaps I've missed something - so I've knocked up a very incomplete list of sections that packages might

Re: Package categories

2008-07-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 07:03:58PM +0100, Chris Walker a écrit : The debtags available don't seem to have quite enough granularity - but perhaps I've missed something - so I've knocked up a very incomplete list of sections that packages might drop into. Hi Chris, If I understand correctly,

Re: Package categories

2008-07-01 Thread George Serbanut
I agree with you, Adam. There are packages touching more than one subcategory. I am physicist in the elementary particle physics and high energies, working on software for that field, and I can say that, in my field at least, there cannot be physics without math and computer science. So, I support

Re: Package categories

2008-06-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, Chris Walker wrote: For example http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/physics.php lists packages to do Finite element analysis, optical simulation, xray absorption spectroscopy, ab inito quantum mechanics and computer algebra. I propose to post to this list or the

Re: Package categories

2008-06-29 Thread Chris Walker
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 04:30:35PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, Chris Walker wrote: For example http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/physics.php lists packages to do Finite element analysis, optical simulation, xray absorption spectroscopy, ab inito quantum

Re: Package categories

2008-06-29 Thread Chris Walker
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 05:46:23PM +0100, chrisw wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 04:30:35PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, Chris Walker wrote: For example http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/physics.php lists packages to do Finite element analysis, optical

Re: Package categories

2008-06-29 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 13:55 +0100, Chris Walker wrote: It would be nice to see science packages better categorised. I guess this is ultimately best done using debtags. For example http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/physics.php lists packages to do Finite element analysis, optical