Introducing: Debian Science tools

[Manuel Prinz]

Am Samstag, den 18.10.2008, 11:01 +0200 schrieb Andreas Tille:
> On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, Manuel Prinz wrote:
> 
> > I just setup a Git repository in our group namespace named
> > "debian-science-tools". It's supposed to be a collection of tools that
> > will aid when working on Debian Science, and everyone is very welcome to
> > contribute to it. It's both for users and developers, enabling users to
> > contribute more easily to Debian Science -- if they like to do so.
> 
> Manuel, many thanks for this effort which is really welcome.  But
> IMHO this rather belongs to general Debian Pure Blends (formerly
> known as Custom Debian Distribution) stuff and should rather go
> to the cdd repository.  I is a known fact that every project develops
> nice tools and my goal is to find synergies to make these available
> for everybody.  This does not mean that I want to stop you from
> continuing the good work but please use a variable for debian-science
> at every piece of your code and try to use configuration files to
> enable a generalisation easily.

Sure. This can be easily done, the scripts are just a few lines of shell
code and can of course be generalized. I did not think of the "big
picture" here as I just thought of them as a little hackery that makes
my life a little easier and I wanted to share. If you feel like Blends
are the appropriate place, I'm happy to "donate" them. :)

What is the preferred prefix? "dpb-", "blend-", or other? It's not too
much effort to change it, just asking.

> The science argument should make the script reading a configuration
> file /etc/blend/science/science.conf which should contain all the
> information you need and will be installed by the science-common
> package.  This is only some rough scetch what I plan for the future
> but this should give you an idea how to design those scripts.  I
> also would like you to continue this discussion at debian-custom
> list which is

[ And here the sentence ended in your mail. ]

This can easily be done. I'll subscribe on d-custom, as I am not
currently. If I find the time this week, I'll start making the code more
general. (File) Names can be discussed later.

> > There is also a small wrapper script, debsci, that simply calls the
> > debsci-* scipts. It's just for convenience, to feel a little more like
> > Git. (Which I like. You may or may not use it, all tools can be called
> > directly.)
> 
> Same here: Please consider
> 
>      blend science
> 
> or something like this.

This would just be "blend wnpp science" then. The tools are wrapped to
their "dashed" version, so "blend wnpp" is equal to calling
"blend-wnpp", as is in Git. ("git add" vs. "git-add", for example.) It's
just for (my) convenience.

Thanks for your feedback!

Best regards
Manuel
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