From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 25 16:11:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D14D516A4CE; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 16:11:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (mta7.pltn13.pbi.net [64.164.98.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABA8743D39; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 16:11:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (65e9e0fe6142e7c04473c33433747047@adsl-67-119-53-203.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [67.119.53.203])i1Q0BQSs025034; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 16:11:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B4A7866CAF; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 16:10:36 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 16:10:36 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Joe Marcus Clarke Message-ID: <20040226001036.GA80934@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> <1077751774.761.84.camel@gyros> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1077751774.761.84.camel@gyros> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org cc: Pav Lucistnik cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org cc: ports-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/science/hdf5 Makefile distinfo pkg-plist X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 00:11:29 -0000 --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 06:29:34PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > > 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 assum= ed > > > 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 :-) >=20 > 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. Perhaps the pkg-descr is just inaccurate..it doesn't talk about much about what the software is useful for, which confused me when I looked at it. The website is a bit better. =20 Kris --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAPTl8Wry0BWjoQKURAht1AJ9YjwbgOJibu0Yf+yph+ahptSJLKgCg+sxK 1Ssd4Z5SK2M9ltbUEm+BDPk= =og3O -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0--