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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Date: 2012-08-21T00:31:56+01:00
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"Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> writes:

> On 8/20/2012 5:57 PM, Simon Wright wrote:
>> "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> writes:

>> but am unsure about the adalapack
>> project; there are quite a lot of files named, or in directories named,
>> OLD. Also, I don't think the convert/ directory is useful any more?
>> Please advise.
>
> I kept all the original packages in there, before I merged them
> into one.I put them in an OLD directory. This can be removed.
> not needed.

OK

> The convert folder is very important. It is what Dr Wasu Chaopanon
> used to generate the bindings from Fortran! They are perl scripts.
> If someone wants to update and add more Lapack API's (not all the
> calls are there now), then may be these can be used again). No
> harm of keeping them there.

OK (I was misled by the README, which mentions an absent file MakeAda).

>> I can see that people using GPS would want to use git (or svn, or
>> even cvs) because GPS supports them, and doesn't support hg. But I
>> still think that git is far more complex than most people need. We
>> are not Linus Torvalds!
>
> I really do not know anything about git or HG. I did not see HG when I
> created the project.  If you know how to change this, feel free to do
> that. You are the expert on these things, I never used any of this
> that is why I asked for help in setting this up somewhere.

As I said, GPS users would want to use git (mind you, I haven't looked
at the GPS git interface). I will shut up and suck it up now.