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From: "Marcus D. Hanwell" <cryos@g.o>
To: gentoo-science@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] Re: New category proposal - sci-vis
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 23:06:44
Message-Id: 200511272306.03289.cryos@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-science] Re: New category proposal - sci-vis by George Shapovalov
1 On Sunday 27 November 2005 22:11, George Shapovalov wrote:
2 > Hi Marcus.
3 >
4 > Thanks for picking this up!
5 > I did not realise we did not have kpl, gun/labplot and others under some
6 > sci category yet, so I think this would be nice to do indeed.
7 > Just one suggestion:
8 > all the sci-* categories are in fact full words and not shorthands, so it
9 > would make sense to make this a full word too. Something like
10 > sci-visualization or sci-plot.
11
12 Yeah - I have to admit I favour the shorter category names personally. If we
13 are going to use a long one then I think it should be sci-visualisation (or I
14 guess the American spelling sci-visualization) to keep it more general. There
15 any quite a few apps that deal with visualisation such as gwyddion and some
16 of the molecule rendering packages. It was intended mainly for the plotting
17 packages that are mostly in media-gfx right now.
18
19 I wasn't so sure on the long versus short, but if that is a policy we have as
20 a herd I will stick to it.
21 >
22 > Oh, another one. When you submit the proposal to -dev it will be nice to
23 > include an estimate of how many other plotting/graphing packages we have
24 > lined up in bugzilla. Not that it makes it any stronger with the list of 16
25 > already in portage :), but still is nice to have..
26 >
27 There are quite a few possibles - I was going to look at drawing up a list of
28 some of them. I am sure I won't catch them all though.
29 --
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Re: [gentoo-science] Re: New category proposal - sci-vis Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>