Re: [Gnewsense-dev] GNU C-Graph: Over 100, 000 Discover That Visualizing Convolution is Easy

[Hugh Mayfield]

On Mon, 30 Sep 2013, Karl Goetz wrote:

> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 09:23:03 +1000
> From: Karl Goetz <address@hidden>
> To: Hugh Mayfield <address@hidden>
> Cc: Tobias Platen <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Gnewsense-dev] GNU C-Graph: Over 100,
>     000 Discover That Visualizing Convolution is Easy
>
> Hugh Mayfield <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Mon, 30 Sep 2013, Karl Goetz wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 08:23:35 +1000
> > > From: Karl Goetz <address@hidden>
> > > To: Tobias Platen <address@hidden>,
> > address@hidden
> > > Subject: Re: [Gnewsense-dev] GNU C-Graph: Over 100,
> > >     000 Discover That Visualizing Convolution is Easy
> > >
> > > On Sat Sep 28 06:16:09 2013 Tobias Platen
> > <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > On 27.09.2013 21:15, Sam Geeraerts wrote:
> > > > > Op Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:42:05 -0400
> > > > > schreef Adrienne Thompson <address@hidden>:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Some Gnews that makes Sense. Here's a great package to include in
> > > > > > gNewSense - GNU C-Graph, the free software tool that makes
> > learning
> > > > > > about convolution easy:
> > >
> > > > > Ideally, gNewSense would have all GNU software included, and
> > > > > educational software is particularly
> > >
> > > > I've used GNU C-Graph on Trisquel recently, I had to install it
> > from
> > > > Source, because it is not in the Trisquel repos.
> > > >
> > > > I think it is worth to set up a common repository for both Trisquel
> > an
> > > > Gnewsense that contains the latest stable releases of GNU software.
> > >
> > > Maintaining a repository like that is a lot of work. It would
> > definitely be benefitial to all but time to maintain it will be the
> > proble.
> >
> > Is this something I could do?
>
> Quite possibly, if you can provide the following:
> * enough system resources to build packages

Possibly.  I've got a brace of multi-GHz machines.  I don't know if that's 
enough?

> * reasonable network location for users to download from

Definitely can't provide this.  Cannot afford it.

> * time to build and test the packages on the supported releases of the 
> supported distros
> * time to patch packages and update to newer versions.
> * time to do any other supporting bits of work (eg keepingthe build 
> environments up to date)

Time is not a problem.

Does the above work?

Regards,

Hugh

> Some or all of these may involve learning experiences but i'm not sure the best 
> places to ask for help. I'm happy to take personal email with help requests if 
> you decide to proceed and i'm sure no one will mind gnewsense specific 
> questions being asked here or on irc.
>
> if you want some more information let me know.
> thanks,
> kk

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