Re: [Numpy-discussion] Meta: too many numerical libraries doing the same thing?
Could you let us know what happened to Software Carpentry? The web site isn't very revealing. Who pulled the plug and why? Were they making expected progress? Are they dead or merely negotiating some changes with this or another sponsor? Thanks, --jh--
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Joe Harrington wrote:
Could you let us know what happened to Software Carpentry? The web site isn't very revealing. Who pulled the plug and why? Were they making expected progress? Are they dead or merely negotiating some changes with this or another sponsor?
Don't know about the official project / contest / whatever it was, but some of the tools proposed have been implemented to some extent. For example, SCcons --> scons (IIRC), and Roundup, the winning bug- tracking system design (Ka-Ping Yee I think) is being implemented by someone -- there was an announcement on the python announce list the other day. John
I don't know too much. From what I have read, it seems that the money dried up with the .com crash, The $800,000 allocated for development never materialized, and the project head left for greener pastures. Some of the projects that won the SC design competition have moved to SourceForge, where they show some life (http://sourceforge.net/projects/roundup/, http://sourceforge.net/projects/scons/). The big thing, from what I know (which is not much), is that the promise of almost a million dollars of federal funding for this project seems to have evaporated. At 02:32 PM 12/10/01, Joe Harrington wrote:
Could you let us know what happened to Software Carpentry? The web site isn't very revealing. Who pulled the plug and why? Were they making expected progress? Are they dead or merely negotiating some changes with this or another sponsor?
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