RFC: Fedora Spin for Scientific Research

[Amit Saha]

Hello Bill:

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Amit Saha <droidery at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello:
>
> On 06/03/2011 12:29 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
>>
>> On 06/02/2011 09:14 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>>>
>>> Amit Saha (droidery at gmail.com) said:
>>>>>
>>>>> Sounds like a good start, yes.
>>>>
>>>> Please find the patch attached. Does this look good?
>>>
>>> I'd leave the sorting changes out for now. Aside from that - do we
>>> need to include *both* maxima GUIs in mandatory? Why not just pick
>>> the best one?
>>
>> (hrm, missed seeing detail of the patch, but...)
>>
>> speaking with my maxima maintainer hat on, I'd recommend against using
>> the tk/tcl-based maxima-gui by default (or almost anywhere honestly).
>>
>> You really only want wxMaxima
>
> My bad in leaving both as mandatory. It should really be only wxMaxima.
> I will take care of this change in the "final" patch I send in. So, where do
> we go from here?

It would be great to get an update on this, so as to enable me to
re-create a spin with the updated kickstart file. My re-formatted
patch is ready and I used 'xsltproc' to check the XML file and sort
them within groups.

(The current version lives at:
https://bitbucket.org/amitksaha/custom_linux/src/c94686fe43fe/comps-f16.xml.in)

Many thanks in advance.

-Amit