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On 12:06 Sun 05 Dec , Sébastien Fabbro wrote: |
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> Kacper Kowalik wrote: |
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> > Also, since it was already mentioned on #gentoo-dev, we could have |
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> > "sci" profile with USE="fortran" and remove it from base. |
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> > To my great amazement it seems that not everybody use Fortran on a |
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> > daily basis :P |
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> That was what initiated the idea. Also I was thinking of larger scale |
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> project such as initiating automatic creation of some basic science VM |
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> we could distribute, based on those profiles. |
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This is an interesting point for the future. I have the feeling that |
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the trend for scientific computing is towards integrated systems with |
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many components (i.e. bundled libraries). Mathematical examples that |
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come to mind: sage, scilab, Macaulay, singular..., Some of the upstreams |
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there are actively pursuing the approach of shipping a VM, for instance |
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as the "windows version". There might be a chance for Gentoo to provide |
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a single VM that has it all. |
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+1 for the profiles and VM idea. |
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Thomas Kahle |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ |
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