Fedora scientific packaging

[Sandro Mani]

Hello,

Some time ago I started working on packaging Salome, the platform for 
numerical simulation. As always, time is a limited resource, and things 
kinda stalled after hitting a few issues here and there, despite most of 
the work being done. Now, with Jiri Kastner joining the effort, we 
decided that it would be nice to attempt to make the effort of packaging 
scientific packages for Fedora in general more public, in particular 
considering the scientific-spin effort [1].
Many of the larger scientific packages tend to be very complex and their 
build systems occasionally somewhat fragile... So getting more 
interested people involved would likely increase the chances of the 
efforts succeeding.

That said, there is now a github repo which contains the 
work-in-progress stuff for packaging Salome (and some initial OpenFOAM 
work) here [2]. People interested in joining these efforts or sharing 
initial work on other scientific packages are very welcome to join the 
github project.

Best,
Sandro


[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Scientific_Spin
[2] https://github.com/fedora-scientific/