cvs commit: ports/science/hdf5 Makefile distinfo pkg-plist

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 18:21, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 12:15:26AM +0100, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> > V ?t, 26. 02. 2004 v 00:10, Kris Kennaway p??e:
> > 
> > > >   Modified files:
> > > >     science/hdf5         Makefile distinfo pkg-plist 
> > > >   Log:
> > > >   After repocopy from graphics/hdf5,
> > > >   
> > > >   - Update to 1.6.2
> > > >   - Pass maintainership to submitter
> > > 
> > > I looked at the pkg-descr, and I couldn't see how this was a
> > > scientific application (or graphics, for that matter).  What am I
> > > missing?
> > 
> > Quoting submitter of a PR:
> > 
> > Please move it from the 'graphics' categry to the 'science' category,
> > which is more appropriate.
> > 
> > End of quote. Submitter is one of authors of the software, so I assumed
> > he knows best.
> >
> > What category do you think it should be in? It sounds
> > like a file format for storing scientific data to me.
> 
> I'm sure it could be used for that, but it sounds like a generic data
> storage format that can be used for non-science applications too.
> Kind of like a database :-)

It sounded more like a platform-independent way of representing
scientific data (at least the hdf pkg-descr did).  Database didn't sound
right...converters seemed reasonable, but I have never used the
software.

Joe

> 
> Kris
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