On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 10:54 -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote: > > I decided to try to help the cause of Bayesian statistics and the open > > source effort of the OpenBUGS group (http://www.openbugs.info/w/) by > > making some packages. In case you are not a statistically-inclined > > person, it is worth knowing that Bayesian Updating with Gibbs Sampling > > (BUGS) has caused something of a methodological landslide since the > > early 1990s, helping scholars to model processes that were thought to > > be too difficult. > > > > In Linux, we do not have access to the OpenBUGS GUI, which > > > > I've built deb and rpm packages for RedHat, Fedora and Ubuntu. They > > are available in my webspace and in the project. > > > > I wish these could be in the official linux repositories, but I've not > > tried to put these into an official repository because there are 2 > > problems that seem prohibitive. > > > > First, the (now open) code for OpenBugs is written in Object Pascal > > and it requires a compiler framework called "Black Box" which is, as > > far as I can understand, available only for MS Windows. The OpenBUGS > > team compiles that library, and then for linux we use some accessor > > scripts to send jobs to it. > > > > This, of course, goes against the packaging policy that pre-compiled > > libraries are prohibited. > > > > I was wondering if there could be an exception here, since the code is > > actually available and open. This is more reasonable than > > re-packaging the closed Nvidia drivers, for example. > > f it's actually open, build from source. If it won't build from source > due to a missing dependency, include that in Fedora, built from source. > If that's not possible because something it needs isn't open, I don't see > how this can be allowed. Agreed, it sounds like the necessity of linking against a closed-source library is going to be unacceptable for Fedora proper. However, this is the sort of project that might be acceptable in RPM Fusion. http://www.rpmfusion.org/
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