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Hi Olivier, |
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On Sep 13, 2006, at 4:21 PM, Olivier Fisette wrote: |
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> The reason is lack of human resources. I think no one in the Gentoo |
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> development team is familiar with the NCBI C++ toolkit, so nobody |
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> has had any |
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> particular interest in adding it to Portage. We already have lots |
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> of new |
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> package requests that we try to work on from time to time, but most |
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> of our |
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> time is spent updating existing packages or fixing bugs. |
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Just to know... how many people are involved as *active* developers |
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in gentoo-science? I wrote some ebuilds and I submitted them on |
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bugzilla. I wonder if it would be the case to join gentoo-science... |
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> You can help by filing an enhancement request on the Gentoo Bugzilla |
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> (bugzilla.gentoo.org). It will be assigned to the sci-biology |
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> project and |
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> maybe, eventually, we will have the time to work on it. If you can |
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> write an |
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> ebuild for the package yourself, that would speed up the process |
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> tremendously. |
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At time of writing I'm testing a ncbi-c++ compilation on my system, |
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if everything goes fine I'll write down an ebuild to submit. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Olivier Fisette (ribosome) |
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> Gentoo Linux Developer |
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> Scientific applications, Developer relations |
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