On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 12:19:24PM +0100, Jan Kurik wrote:
= Proposed Self Contained Change: Astronomy Spin =
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Astronomy_Spin
Change owner(s):
* Christian Dersch <lupinix at mailbox dot org >
A Fedora Spin providing a complete toolchain for both amateur and
professional astronomers.
== Detailed Description ==
In both amateur and professional astronomy and astrophysics Linux is a
very popular operating system. More and more data analysis is
performed using Python, especially the astropy project is a quite new
effort providing a professional toolchain. The Astronomy Spin provides
a complete scientific Python environment (2 and 3) as well as the
AstrOmatic software. For observational astronomy, KStars provides a
complete solution for astrophotography using the INDI library. In
addition to an astronomical collection of packages the spin also adds
a menu for astronomy to make work more comfortable.
I'm struggling to see the point in doing this as a Fedora Spin, as
opposed to just providing a yum 'Astronomy' group that can be installed
on any Fedora deployment ? It would seem to be useful to a broader set
of users that way. Alternatively IIUC there is also already a Fedora
'Scientific' spin which seems to aim to bundle together scientific tools,
of which astronomy tools would seem to be a subset. So why not just bundle
astronomy tools into that spin giving users a much broader & more useful
set of functionality ?
Regards,
Daniel
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