[Bug 220766] Review Request: ScientificPython - a collection of Python modules that are useful for scientific computing

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Summary: Review Request: ScientificPython -  a collection of Python modules that are useful for scientific computing


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220766





------- Additional Comments From jspaleta at gmail.com  2006-12-28 12:58 EST -------
(In reply to comment #8)
> Or perhaps document it somewhere in the fedoraproject.org/wiki :)
> Since in the /usr/share/doc/ScientificPython-mpi-2.6/README.MPI, it states,> 
> The module Scientific.MPI is documented in the ScientificPython
> manual. The main purpose of this file is to explain how to install
> ScientificPython with MPI support.[...]
> 
> You could possibly add useful information from that file to the wiki page
> without those installation notes. 

No, I'm not thrilled at using the wiki as the primary source of information. If
you want to make a scientific computing wiki section that provides more
expansive information across the spectrum of available software tools... go
right ahead. But my primary concern is to provide the necessary information in
the packaging documentation for this package.  Other packages already use
README.Fedora files to document Fedora specific changes. If you have suggestions
on what I should be including in a README.Fedora file, I'll do that. But I'm not
going to try to divide my time between the package CVS and the wiki for package
specific documentation.

Then
> /usr/share/doc/ScientificPython-mpi-2.6/README.MPI might be useless, afterwards 
> /usr/share/doc/ScientificPython-mpi-2.6/impipython could be at /usr/bin/impipython

No impipython cannot be in /usr/bin/  because you still have to set the number
of processors to use with mpirun by hand. There is no way around it, the script
is clearly a trivial reference script. I'm not going to work on enhancing this
script into a generally useful executable as part of downstream packaging activity. 

> 
> What do you think ?
> Since, I'm concerned too with scientific packages at Fedora, possibly we could
> gather some packagers (scientific packages) to document their changes during
> packaging on the wiki.
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/SciTech
> We already have SciTech SIG, we could bring it to life, 

I'm not interested in participating in any coordinated SIG activities at this
point. 


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