Re: Fedora scientific packaging

2014-11-25 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 07:21:03PM -0600, Mukundan Ragavan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 11/24/2014 03:49 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 10:12:46PM +0100, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: I have working packages [1] for

Re: Fedora scientific packaging

2014-11-24 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 10:12:46PM +0100, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: I have working packages [1] for genesis and moose (both neuron simulators). I didn't submit them because genesis is old and buggy, and moose a bit unstable, but with the release of v. 3 I'll submit it as a Fedora

Re: Fedora scientific packaging

2014-11-24 Thread Mukundan Ragavan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 11/24/2014 03:49 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 10:12:46PM +0100, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: I have working packages [1] for genesis and moose (both neuron simulators). I didn't submit them because

Re: Fedora scientific packaging

2014-11-23 Thread Amit Saha
- Original Message - From: Sandro Mani manisan...@gmail.com To: Development discussions related to Fedora devel@lists.fedoraproject.org, scit...@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2014 5:32:43 AM Subject: Fedora scientific packaging Hello, Some time ago I

Re: Fedora scientific packaging

2014-11-22 Thread Pete Travis
On 11/21/2014 11:22 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: I think the Fedora policy requires more of a commitment from maintainers than I can offer. In any event, I know RStudio Server can be built from source on Fedora and that it works but it needs a lot of detailed attention to turn it into

Re: Fedora scientific packaging

2014-11-22 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
I have working packages [1] for genesis and moose (both neuron simulators). I didn't submit them because genesis is old and buggy, and moose a bit unstable, but with the release of v. 3 I'll submit it as a Fedora package. I'm now working on pysb and bionetgen as a dependency. Apart from some

Fedora scientific packaging

2014-11-21 Thread Sandro Mani
Hello, Some time ago I started working on packaging Salome, the platform for numerical simulation. As always, time is a limited resource, and things kinda stalled after hitting a few issues here and there, despite most of the work being done. Now, with Jiri Kastner joining the effort, we

Re: Fedora scientific packaging

2014-11-21 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
The two I want most are RStudio (desktop and server) and R Commander. RStudio does exist in RPM form but the packages are made via 'cmake' rather than by Fedora's process, and the server's using the old school /etc/init.d rather than systemd. R Commander's much easier - you just have to package

Re: [Scitech] Fedora scientific packaging

2014-11-21 Thread Dave Love
Sandro Mani manisan...@gmail.com writes: That said, there is now a github repo which contains the work-in-progress stuff for packaging Salome (and some initial OpenFOAM work) here [2]. People interested in joining these efforts or sharing initial work on other scientific packages are very

Re: Fedora scientific packaging

2014-11-21 Thread Pete Travis
On Nov 21, 2014 12:48 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@znmeb.net wrote: The two I want most are RStudio (desktop and server) and R Commander. RStudio does exist in RPM form but the packages are made via 'cmake' rather than by Fedora's process, and the server's using the old school /etc/init.d

Re: Fedora scientific packaging

2014-11-21 Thread Suchakra
Hi, What do you say, Ed? If I get the package review done, will you help with bugs and maintenance? --Pete I am using RStudio actively on Fedora using the rpm they provide. Though it works just about satisfactorily for me standalone, it would really be nice to have it in our repos. I can

Re: Fedora scientific packaging

2014-11-21 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
I think the Fedora policy requires more of a commitment from maintainers than I can offer. In any event, I know RStudio Server can be built from source on Fedora and that it works but it needs a lot of detailed attention to turn it into something that will make it into a release. It has a few