[Debian-med-packaging] Doubts about packaging of OpenBUGS

[Dylan]

Hi all,
Andreas, sorry for CCing you, I thought you were interested in this topic
since I have proposed to package it in my previous mail [1].

I think it could be interesting in Debian Med since this software is used
for in biomedical research (e.g. some examples of current course/workshop
presenting OpenBUGS [2,3])

Moreover it seem to have some interest [4,5]. The paper [6] published in
"Statistics in Medicine" seem to be cited more than 560 times on Google
scholar and 80 times on PubMed and the paper [7] about the original version
(only available on MS Windows) is cited more than 2680 times on Google
scholar.

Best regards,
Dylan


[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2014/03/msg00222.html
[2] http://www.crfr.ac.uk/bayesian-disease-mapping/
[3] http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/phs/news/SummerInstitute_2014.pdf
[4] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/191101
[5] https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=BUGS
[6] Lunn, D., Spiegelhalter, D., Thomas, A. and Best, N. (2009) The BUGS
project: Evolution, critique and future directions (with discussion),
Statistics in Medicine 28: 3049--3082.
[7] Lunn, D.J., Thomas, A., Best, N., and Spiegelhalter, D. (2000) WinBUGS
-- a Bayesian modelling framework: concepts, structure, and extensibility.
Statistics and Computing, 10:325--337.




2014-05-19 8:14 GMT+02:00 Andreas Tille <andreas at fam-tille.de>:
>
> Hi Dylan,
>
> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 06:36:59PM +0200, Dylan wrote:
> > Hi Andreas,
> > I have some doubts about the packaging of OpenBUGS
>
> I have not even thought about this software.  Why do you think this is a
> topic for Debian Med?
>
> Kind regards
>
>      Andreas.
>
> PS: There is no reason in CCing me. :-)
>
> > which are already
> > mentioned in the Fedora mailing list [1] and quickly in the Debian
Science
> > mailing list [2].
> >
> > To summarize, the main issue is about the core of OpenBUGS
(libOpenBUGS.so)
> > because it is written in Object Pascal which requires a compiler
framework
> > only available on MS Windows (Black Box). In the "source code"
available on
> > their website, "libOpenBUGS.so" is given as binary already compiled.
> >
> > I don't know Debian opinion about this issue. Maybe it is possible to
> > package libOpenBUGS.so as "non-free" and others OpenBUGS components as
> > "contrib"? Or it's unimaginable to have this software in Debian
repository?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Dylan
> >
> >
> > [1]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-June/152747.html
> > [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2008/12/msg00107.html
>
> --
> http://fam-tille.de
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