Cancer Research & Ubuntu repositories

[Mark_in_Hollywood]

This fellow:

Ubuntu Tutorials: Dapper-Feisty-Edgy-Gutsy

http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/06/01/folding-home-automated-installer-initial-release-v01/

has written an automated script for installing Stanford University's "Folding at Home" software to help research cancer, Parkinson's and other diseases.

I asked him why this wasn't part of the Ubuntu repositories and he said it need to be "packaged" and that he wasn't knowledgeable about that.

I can barely cut & paste at the terminal, but the help I can give is by asking the Ubuntu community to package this for the programmer of ./folding-at-home script and get it included in the repos.

Thank you for your time reading this.

[oldb0y]

I also think this should be in the repos, not only because it benefits a good cause, but it would also be good publicity for Ubuntu.

[Tundro Walker]

Sounds like a good idea, but the temp status of the F@H project might be a reasonable objection why it isn't in the repo's. Folding@Home is a one-off thing that will eventually come to an end (some day) just as the SETI project is. (did?)

[Mark_in_Hollywood]

Begging your pardon, but the fact that Folding MAY or MAY NOT come to an end is not reason sufficient to prevent it from being in the repos.

While I have no proof to corroborate this, I'm reasonably certain that more than one program has entered and left the repos.

Do you have "packaging" skills, in the first place?

[tehet]

Something like this has been suggested for Debian (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=261257) as well in the past and so far hasn't made it in for a number of reasons.

[oldb0y]

Just wondering, who decides wheter something is to be included in the repos, or not?