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I'd leave chemistry programs in the chemistry category. Same with |
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biology, astronomy and mathematics. The new category fits well for |
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things like graphviz and opendx. |
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By the way, I don't know if I mentioned this but I took a course in |
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Advanced R Programming the week before last. I am toying with the idea |
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of trying to put together an ebuild schema/eclass for R packages, |
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similar to what Dirk Eddelbuettel has done with Quantian for the Debian |
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distro. Who's the current R guru amongst the developers? I can share |
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notes if you're interested. |
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Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: |
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> On Sunday 29 January 2006 22:15, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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>> Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: |
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>>> Just to confirm that I have added the new category and moved all the |
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>>> applications that were in my list. Please let me know if there are any |
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>>> that I have missed. Also let me know if you spot any issues with the move |
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>>> that I might have missed. I went with the longer name as that was the |
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>>> prevailing opinion (still preferred the short name myself). |
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>>> The category is intended for visualisation applications, so please don't |
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>>> move any libraries such as plplot etc into there. I know there are also |
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>>> some very hazy applications such as gmt which is now very generic and |
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>>> used by many more people than just geo-sci folks. So I welcome discussion |
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>>> on anything else you might feel should be moved. It is good having them |
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>>> out of media-gfx though :) |
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>> Now the question is, can we put less general-purpose visualization |
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>> programs there? For example, molecular graphics programs. |
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> I personally would say yes, and that is why I wanted to keep it general. |
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> However I can see the argument for them going in sci-chemistry too. I was |
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> tempted to put stuff like easychem in there as it has no real purpose other |
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> than to draw chemical structures for print etc. I welcome the opinions of |
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> others on this. |
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