> The Geant4 and ROOT work I did privately, and right now I don't > actively work on those ITPs. At least on the ROOT I know they are > interested, but they have other priorities given that ROOT is > notoriously hard to package (huge monorepo with external deps, > complicated build script, modified embedded clang, legacy names like > "libCore.so" et al). I don't think Geant4 has any man-power to spare, > and it also has their own packaging challenges (requires huge datasets > to actually work).
And what about subcontracting the packaging ? The CERN can pour a few euros in this kind of task no ? > > It is worth mentioning that CERN's software group for scientific > software (mainly ROOT, Geant4 and cvmfs) are an entirely different > department than CERN IT. If they move more machines to Debian I doubt > we will see upstream packaging as a result, most likely they will just > incorporate it better in cvmfs. so cvmfs official packages would be great. Cheers Fred
