ipython anyone?

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Tue Mar 1 18:31:42 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 08:26 -0800, Shahms King wrote:
>On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 10:33 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
>> On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 07:27 -0800, Shahms King wrote:
>> >This post really has two questions, the first being: What do I need to
>> >do to get ipython (http://ipython.scipy.org) included in Extras?
>> >
>> >The project distributes packages that work on FC3 already, but given
>> >that they include "py23" and "py24" as the release number, I'm guessing
>> >they need to be cleaned up to match Fedora guidelines.
>> >
>> >This brings up my second, more general question.  Is this the proper
>> >forum for requesting package additions? Or should I really just stand up
>> >and say "I'm willing to maintain this package for Extras" and start the
>> >QA process in bugzilla?
>> > 
>> 
>> Do it here, Starting the QA process in bugzilla just means fewer people
>> hear about it.
>> 
>> -sv
>
>All right, will do.  I have built an ipython package that should more
>closely conform to the Fedora guidelines than the "official" one at:
>http://shahms.mesd.k12.or.us/yum/fedora/3/RPMS.shahms/ipython-0.6.11-1.noarch.rpm
>http://shahms.mesd.k12.or.us/yum/fedora/3/SRPMS.shahms/ipython-0.6.11-1.src.rpm
>http://shahms.mesd.k12.or.us/yum/fedora/3/SRPMS.shahms/ipython.spec
>
>That should be a good start.  If no one else wants to keep packaging
>AbiWord and Gnumeric, I'd be more than happy to maintain them as it
>would be a shame to see them disappear from Fedora altogether (and I
>happen to like both of them a lot more than OO.org ;-P)

You also package quixote and friends, right?

Where are those packages? Would you consider maintaining them in extras?

-sv





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