potential candidates for contribution

Hunter Matthews thm at duke.edu
Mon Mar 21 19:36:32 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 17:42, Michael Peters wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:02:31 +0100, Rudolf Kastl <che666 at uni.de> wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, den 17.03.2005, 06:59 -0800 schrieb Toshio Kuratomi:
> 
> > > >
> > > Libraries without applications can be used by developers (To develop new
> > > applications and to aid in porting from other libraries/versions.)  So
> > > having them in a repository for people to decide to download makes quite a
> > > bit of sense to me.
> > 
> > that is of course true but developers usually grab cvs ;).
> 
> 
> Your physics or math or chemisty student may have use for a library
> for their research or thesis that involves programming to assist with
> their analysis, in which case having the library available would be
> beneficial to them even if extras doesn't have an app that makes
> specific use of the library.
> 
> Often these people program to get their results, messing with CVS is
> not what they want to do.

I have several libraries packaged locally for just this reason.
(So add biologists to your list :) )
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