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SCALE: Projects and distribution unfriendlinessSCALE: Projects and distribution unfriendlinessPosted Mar 3, 2011 17:22 UTC (Thu) by kmccarty (subscriber, #12085)Parent article: SCALE: Projects and distribution unfriendliness
As a former Debian developer who packaged scientific software, I wrote a similar (but more domain-specific) article titled "Physics Software Rant" some years ago. I'm afraid that scientists are often the worst offenders in Free Software land. Thought it made for an interesting comparison with the FAIL list.
Not currently posted online, but there is a Way-Back Machine archive:
http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20081206040727/http://pe...
- Kevin
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SCALE: Projects and distribution unfriendliness Posted Mar 4, 2011 16:16 UTC (Fri) by dr@jones.dk (subscriber, #7907) [Link]
That's an awesome article (or "rant"), Kevin!
Please consider reposting it somewhere - I haven't found anywhere a similarly nice summary of these various issues.
I can offer to host an ikiwiki site for you if that might be of interest.
- Jonas
SCALE: Projects and distribution unfriendliness Posted Mar 4, 2011 16:41 UTC (Fri) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877) [Link]
I would like to second this. As someone about to release some nontrivial quantity of Free Software for physics, it was very enlightening. Fortunately, and likely due to my previous Free Software and system administration involvement, most of these were addressed from the ground up.
SCALE: Projects and distribution unfriendliness Posted Mar 4, 2011 21:00 UTC (Fri) by kmccarty (subscriber, #12085) [Link]
Thank you both for the kind comments.
I've resurrected the article here:
No time for updates, unfortunately, so I just stuck a cautionary note about likely out-of-date information at the top.
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