Re: Removal requests submitted for CERNLIB packages

2011-03-09 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
pointer addresses of the two arrays. That may not be 64-bit safe. I'm afraid my memory on this is very hazy. It might possibly be addressed already in one of the existing debian/patches. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty kmcca...@gmail.com WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751

Re: Removal requests submitted for CERNLIB packages

2011-03-07 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
/0339.html [5] http://root.cern.ch/root/roottalk/roottalk10/0335.html best regards and good luck! -- Kevin B. McCarty kmcca...@gmail.com WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-science-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Removal requests submitted for CERNLIB packages

2011-03-04 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
=508413#22 [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2010/09/msg00038.html [3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2008/09/msg00028.html Apologies for the intrusion onto the list. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty kmcca...@gmail.com WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751

Retiring from Debian

2009-12-08 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
, -- Kevin B. McCarty kmcca...@gmail.com WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Retiring from Debian

2009-12-08 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Andreas Tille andr...@fam-tille.de wrote: On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 02:18:27PM -0500, Brett Viren wrote: Kevin B. McCarty kmcca...@debian.org writes: With best wishes to the project, My thanks go out for your good work.  Having Geant4 in Debian packages

Re: Orphaning my packages...

2009-10-01 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
at http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2009/09/msg00066.html in case you also wanted to adopt the Cernlib on Debian web pages. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty kmcca...@gmail.com WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751

Relinquishing some unofficial packages and infrastructure

2009-09-29 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
away from CLHEP. [4] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/07/msg00016.html [5] http://wwwasd.web.cern.ch/wwwasd/lhc++/clhep/ best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty kmcca...@gmail.com WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751

Re: [RFC] New task: science-dataacquisition

2008-12-10 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
? -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Whither CERNLIB (, Paw, Geant3.21) in Debian? RFA / future plans

2008-09-09 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
a note to debian-science that PAW and friends are slated for doom. In the meantime, prospective maintainers may want to take a look at my CERNLIB on Debian pages at http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/cernlib/ and also at the source packages (prepare to be horrified). best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty

Re: DebianScience Unofficial Repository

2008-07-31 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
to reflect this. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Survey: utility of packaging Hipparcos star catalog?

2008-04-15 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
to biology. I hope anyone who works on or mentors that project bears in mind that it could be kept much more general in scope. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Survey: utility of packaging Hipparcos star catalog?

2008-04-10 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
=HEAD You can of course answer (c) neither to this question if you want to keep shipping the files that upstream provides in both your source and binary packages -- the Hipparcos catalog is basically public-domain so that's perfectly OK. Thanks very much for your time. best regards, -- Kevin B

A mips/mipsel gfortran issue

2008-03-21 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
test suites to check for this sort of problem -- better to have something FTBFS than to have it get into the archive but be completely (or worse, subtly) broken. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG: public key

Re: desktop file main category for a scientific data viewer?

2008-03-04 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
, or to demonstrate properties of transmission lines in an EE class. Maybe one useful thing that can come from this overly wordy email would be a suggestion that Research be added as a recognized Free Desktop category. Anyone have any feelings about that? best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW

Re: desktop file main category for a scientific data viewer?

2008-03-04 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
(replying to myself again, sigh) Kevin B. McCarty wrote: Maybe one useful thing that can come from this overly wordy email would be a suggestion that Research be added as a recognized Free Desktop category. Anyone have any feelings about that? On looking at the wiki page, http

Re: debian-science and science-* packages

2007-08-24 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
-* metapackages do and presumably they have some reason for it. 2) Maybe these metapackages could Suggest the corresponding education-* metapackages. 3) science-physics should definitely recommend root-system once that's out of experimental. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics

Re: Desktop menu categories

2007-08-20 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
consider PAW or ROOT an educational tool ;-) -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: fw: gfortran transition release goal proposal

2007-07-27 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
implementation has been mentioned on c.l.f. What do you suggest for *C/C++* code that, for whatever reason, needs to call GETARG() or whatever the modern equivalent is from a FORTRAN library? best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty

Re: fw: gfortran transition release goal proposal

2007-07-24 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
to _gfortran_getarg_i4 in libgfortran. I see that there is also a _gfortran_getarg_i8 symbol in libgfortran, but surely aliasing getarg_ to one or the other would not be a problem. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton

Re: fw: gfortran transition release goal proposal

2007-07-21 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
once blas, lapack (and ideally atlas) are taken care of: cernlib mclibs / paw (these two are independent) geant321 / mn-fit (these are independent but must each follow paw) I'd prefer to do the uploads myself since these packages are rather finicky. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL

Please test new experimental packages of Cernlib 2006

2007-03-06 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/cernlib/faq.html#41 best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: Please test new experimental packages of Cernlib 2006

2007-03-06 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi Charles, On 3/6/07, Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 02:24:37PM -0800, Kevin B. McCarty a écrit : deb http://borex.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ sid cernlib-2006 deb-src http://borex.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ sid cernlib-2006 Hi Kevin, I added the two lines

Re: Dependency problem installing Geant4 8.2 package

2007-02-28 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
the following dependency error : The following packages have unmet dependencies: libgeant4-dev: Depends: geant4-headers (= 4.8.2-2) but 4.8.2-3 is installed. Someone else also reported this bug to me early this morning. It should be fixed now. If not, please tell me. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty

Re: BALLView - a molecular viewer and modeling tool

2007-01-26 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
to make sure things were clear for anyone new to Debian packaging who might be reading the lists. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544

Re: Couple of naive questions

2007-01-04 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
of deps and recommends that you'll need to install before dpkg -i'ing it. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Geant4 unofficial Debian package repository rearranged

2006-12-20 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
been packaged. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: How much interest in a debian-science.org repository?

2006-12-19 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
be packaged in Debian proper (eventually... look how long it's taking us to get ROOT in :-/ ), anything non-free but distributable with a proper license can go in Debian non-free, and no one wants to take the risk of hosting debs that have unclear legal status. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty

Re: How much interest in a debian-science.org repository?

2006-12-19 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Brett Viren wrote: Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I personally don't have anywhere to host such a repository. (My post-doc is up in April so I will probably lose the use of the machine currently hosting my Geant4 .debs.) Not to put words in his mouth, but I understand

Re: [ROOT] New release of Debian ROOT packages - Development Snapshot

2006-10-29 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
into Debian stable, /usr should be the default if nothing is set. What are the complaints? Debian packages shouldn't be depending on env. variables. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key

Re: Bug#389773: ITP: cnf -- library for C and Fortran mixed programming

2006-09-27 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: appropriate architectures for packages

2006-09-01 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
- someone may want to build a piece of embedded kit around it. Hmm, an embedded Debian-based scientific workstation. That could be a neat idea... I could see manufacturers of smart oscilloscopes and other electronics doing that as a value-added thing. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL

Re: cern software

2006-08-08 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
this but haven't had a chance yet. The other big issue is that GEANT4 uses the CLHEP library, which is still in a completely murky state with respect to licensing. Once these are solved I think GEANT4 could be uploaded to Debian/non-free. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics

How much interest in a debian-science.org repository?

2006-07-19 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
, in fields other than physics, also be interested in using this repository? The idea needs a lot of setup so probably not much will happen immediately; this email is mainly to gauge the amount of interest. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http

Re: How much interest in a debian-science.org repository?

2006-07-19 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: How much interest in a debian-science.org repository?

2006-07-19 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
.) PAW aren't intrinsically physics software (unlike say GEANT), they're just traditionally used by physicists. Comments? -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton

A problem with PAW variables - looking for suggestions

2006-06-23 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
). best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: A problem with PAW variables - looking for suggestions

2006-06-23 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
make inside it. Then run paw from the same directory (so that it starts up by executing the enclosed pawlogon.kumac file). best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751

Re: root on ppc: 403 forbiden

2006-06-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
On 6/17/06, Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So it should suffice for ROOT packages to be recompiled against an updated libmysqlclient15-dev package. (If ROOT were already in Debian, a simple email to debian-release asking for a binary NMU would have worked.) Christian, will you have

Re: FTBFS due to gfortran

2006-06-05 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: scripts that relies on $ROOTSYS

2006-05-19 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
, your suggestion of creating a symlink farm is probably the fastest solution. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544

Re: clhep packages

2006-03-28 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
, a developer of PAIPIX (based on Knoppix, with additional scientific applications) has just spoken with one of the GEANT 4 people at CERN, and received unofficial confirmation that it was OK to redistribute GEANT 4. I'm just awaiting an official email now clarifying the details. -- Kevin B. McCarty

Re: Is there template for letters about software without licence ?

2006-02-01 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
if they re-license under a DFSG-compatible license. Even if they refuse, thank them for their time and consideration of your request. You might also want to ask this on debian-legal, although they might not have comments specifically regarding academic software. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL

Re: Debian for Systems Biology

2006-01-29 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
it to happen. Why not use the already-existing Debian wiki page at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScienceBiology ? (For those who aren't aware, you don't need to be a Debian Developer to edit the wiki; you just need to create an account there for yourself.) regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Debian for Systems Biology

2006-01-29 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
On 1/29/06, Luca Brivio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:32:30 -0500 Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not use the already-existing Debian wiki page at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScienceBiology ? (For those who aren't aware, you don't need to be a Debian

Re: FORTRAN common blocks

2006-01-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
or EGSnrc. I have to add that having my first large-scale exposure to FORTRAN being the spaghetti code in Cernlib didn't endear the language to me any. :-) regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG

Re: New source and binary Debian packages for ROOT.

2006-01-15 Thread Kevin B McCarty ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
, in which case my objections would only apply to h2root and g2root. -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Debian's PAW should now work on AMD64 (also: OpenPAW)

2005-12-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
, it may very well be that this could work as a PAW substitute on 64-bit arches. Seems to be in the early stages yet; anyone have any experience with it? Happy Holidays to all, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University

g77 - gfortran transition and AMD64 g77 bugs

2005-09-20 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
in Debian? If so, in what timeframe? The latter is fixed upstream, but the former is apparently unfixed. It can apparently be worked around with the -fno-f2c flag. But this (from the first half of my email) will be incompatible with any current FORTRAN libraries in Debian. regards, -- Kevin B

Re: ROOT as A replacement for gnuplot

2005-09-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
future). This sounds interesting. Are you willing to give a sneak preview? :-) regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: ROOT as A replacement for gnuplot

2005-09-15 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
an existing version of Cint but it will be faster to upload Root source that builds its own Cint binary (in the root-cint binary package). Also I don't know if Root is compatible with pure Cint. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty