Fedora scientific packaging

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

The two I want most are RStudio (desktop and server) and R Commander.
RStudio does exist in RPM form but the packages are made via 'cmake' rather
than by Fedora's process, and the server's using the old school /etc/init.d
rather than systemd. R Commander's much easier - you just have to package
it's dependencies and deploy its desktop file.

When I get the time to work on a long-term project I may take a shot at
RStudio in COPR. OpenSUSE Build Service has source RPMs for RStudio but
they're many revisions old and seem to be unmaintained.

On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Sandro Mani <manisandro at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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/
>
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