Packaging enthought tool suite

[Shawn Starr]

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>----- Original Message ----
>From: Gael Varoquaux 
>To: Shawn Starr 
>Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 3:48:33 AM
>Subject: Re: Packaging enthought tool suite

>>Hi Shawn,

>>On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:52:23AM -0400, Shawn Starr wrote:
> I have RPM packaging experience, I am part of the Fedora project and could
> help get these all packaged.

>>Great news!

> I believe you would want all of the packages that are in ets? This can be
> done. I have no experience in using Enthought though,

>>Yes, we all think it would be great to have all the packages in ETS. If
>>we keep the current division, that makes 48 RPMs. That's a lot of work.
>>But we can also group some of them and make less. Just tell me how much
>>different packages you are willing to do, and I'll figure out a
>>consistent grouping.

Well, they all appear to be Python so packaging them all is the same Fedora python
packaging guidelines.

I'm thinking for the setuptools we'll call the package python-ets-setuptools since it
is extensions/dropins to python-setuptools (I think).

> from what I gather, these are some tools and python modules and for
> scientific use, 3D/2D plotting and more.

>>Exactly. 3D/2D plotting, and a lot of widget and framework-related stuff
>>to be able to build extensible applications. The whole suite is just
>>trying to make it easier to build interactiv scientific applications
>>(Enthought's core business).

> We can continue to discuss this on the fedora-devel mailing list, im just not
> subscribed to it from this address :-)

Best to do this from the fedora-devel ML, so everyone is kept in the loop and could also
jump in and help :-)

>>I am subscribed, we can do it on the list, or off the list, as you wish.

>>Cheers,

>>Gaël

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