Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 18:29:34 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/science/hdf5 Makefile distinfo pkg-plist Message-ID: <1077751774.761.84.camel@gyros> In-Reply-To: <20040225232144.GA80284@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200402252253.i1PMrNtm056865@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040225231017.GA79984@xor.obsecurity.org> <1077750926.62466.6.camel@hood.oook.cz> <20040225232144.GA80284@xor.obsecurity.org>
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--=-Y89QjDNaGQj4lm0F4lEa Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 18:21, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 12:15:26AM +0100, Pav Lucistnik wrote: > > V ?t, 26. 02. 2004 v 00:10, Kris Kennaway p??e: > >=20 > > > > Modified files: > > > > science/hdf5 Makefile distinfo pkg-plist=20 > > > > Log: > > > > After repocopy from graphics/hdf5, > > > > =20 > > > > - Update to 1.6.2 > > > > - Pass maintainership to submitter > > >=20 > > > I looked at the pkg-descr, and I couldn't see how this was a > > > scientific application (or graphics, for that matter). What am I > > > missing? > >=20 > > Quoting submitter of a PR: > >=20 > > Please move it from the 'graphics' categry to the 'science' category, > > which is more appropriate. > >=20 > > End of quote. Submitter is one of authors of the software, so I assumed > > he knows best. > > > > What category do you think it should be in? It sounds > > like a file format for storing scientific data to me. >=20 > I'm sure it could be used for that, but it sounds like a generic data > storage format that can be used for non-science applications too. > Kind of like a database :-) It sounded more like a platform-independent way of representing scientific data (at least the hdf pkg-descr did). Database didn't sound right...converters seemed reasonable, but I have never used the software. Joe >=20 > Kris --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-Y89QjDNaGQj4lm0F4lEa Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBAPS/eb2iPiv4Uz4cRApPnAKCl0kctLKOKkKFhgi5tyiJqnU4hzgCgoGAR IIMVY91Uh/zklEAvTTPhJug= =taZ4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Y89QjDNaGQj4lm0F4lEa--
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