Thought you may like to see this. Do you know of any other users of the Gist module besides yourself?
Everyone who uses Yorick uses the gist package within Yorick, and there are a lot of such people at LLNL and worldwide. Since some major new LLNL production codes will be python based, I predict significant interest in the Python Gist package. Currently, I have heard that Marty Marinak uses the Python Gist package within an LLNL python-based code. I haven't tried to do a survey, so there may well be others. I intend to use it for my work, which would then expose it to my co-workers and collaborators, many of whom already use Yorick with its Gist interface. Gist is a very efficient graphics package, due in part to being written directly to Xlib rather than layered on top of some other interface, and due also to the skill of Gist's author (Dave Munro). (It is also very easy to write additional efficient graphics engines for Gist, as has been done by Steve Langer for windows and macOS.) Gist also has a very well designed interface (both "user friendly" and efficient, an unusual combination) with features that were tailored specifically to the needs of LLNL physicists. In my opinion, it would be a tragedy if Gist were lost. Regarding xfiles.llnl.gov, I am pretty sure that the server is now behind the new LLNL firewall and therefore invisible to the outside world. But it still exists. It would be a good idea to arrange for these packages to be available somewhere where outsiders can get them.
Lee Taylor
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 15:33:19 -0700 From: "L. Busby" <busby@icf.llnl.gov> To: johann@physics.berkeley.edu Cc: motteler@icf.llnl.gov, numpy-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Numpy-discussion] LLNL distribution?
[ Johann Hibschman <johann@physics.berkeley.edu> asks ]
Is there still a publically available LLNL distribution of NumPy?
Or, more precisely, now that NumPy has been spun off as a separate project, where should I look for updates to the Gist module? Is it still available?
xfiles.llnl.gov doesn't seem to be there anymore...
The older versions of the LLNL distribution, including the Gist module, continue to be available at ftp-icf.llnl.gov:/pub/python.
There haven't been any updates to Gist in well over a year. We (Zane Motteler and I) have zero local customers for it, and a multitude of other programmatic responsibilities. We realize that it would be nice simply to dis-entangle Gist from the old distribution and make it available as a separate Python package, perhaps using Distutils, or not, or as an RPM, or as an SRPM, or as a Debian package. There is no time and no support for this activity. If you the reader would like to undertake the project, you have our blessing.
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