[ADMB Users] ADMB in standard package formats

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I can work the man page; I have thus far been responsible for it.
I assume we don't want to write a 5460 line beast of a man page;
however any content that people want included in the man page shown in
the Debian package.
Honestly, I think that focusing on the standard Linux build process
and including the man page in the default build process will  make
getting admb into the standard linux pipeline.
Barak Pearlmutter is probably a critical resource for this activity;
however he cannot work on this alone.  Has anyone looked at the
patches he has suggested? If the build process needs to be cleaned up,
who within admb
is willing to work with us on it?

Aaron

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:47 AM, Arni Magnusson <arnima at hafro.is> wrote:
> Our priority should be to release ADMB in standard package formats: Debian,
> Gentoo, RPM, and Mac.
>
> This will make ADMB much more visible and accessible for scientists in all
> disciplines. Package repositories are categorized, so ADMB would be listed
> on autogenerated lists of scientific and statistical software for Linux, for
> example. These lists are copied to Wikipedia, blogs, newsletters, etc.
>
> Packaging means adapting the build procedure to Linux standards (we may be
> there already), writing a short man page, and filling out a basic template
> file for each package format. Please consider participating in the ongoing
> effort:
>
>   http://admb-project.org/developers/packaging
>
> Arni
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