SCALE: Projects and distribution unfriendliness

Posted Mar 4, 2011 16:16 UTC (Fri) by dr@jones.dk (subscriber, #7907)
In reply to: SCALE: Projects and distribution unfriendliness by kmccarty
Parent article: SCALE: Projects and distribution unfriendliness

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] (1 responses)

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:
http://starplot.org/articles/physics-software-rant.html

No time for updates, unfortunately, so I just stuck a cautionary note about likely out-of-date information at the top.