Snapping scientific software

[Marcus Tomlinson]

Thanks for this mardy. A very interesting read (& video)!

> On 24 Mar 2017, at 23:33, Alberto Mardegan <alberto.mardegan at canonical.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi there!
>  Please bear with my boasting for a while. :-)  I just wrote a blog
> post [1] on my experience with snapping photogrammetry software, that is
> software which can build a 3D model out of a set of 2D photographs.
> 
> I also made a video overview of the process:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELHOjC_V-FE
> 
> 
> What might be of interest to the readers of this mailing list, is that
> there is a multitude of software tools out there which are not packaged
> for Linux, mostly because their authors are more interested in
> programming than in software distribution.
> That is certainly the case for scientific software, where authors are
> researchers who excel in their field but who often happen not to be
> interested in software distribution (presumably because they target
> other university researchers, who are anyway supposed to hack on the
> sources).
> Sometimes they are also not even very good programmers, which can make
> building their software harder than what it could be.
> 
> Snapcraft and snaps can be of enormous help in this case.
> 
> I enjoyed writing those snaps, and despite being initially totally
> indifferent about these projects, I've ended up contributing to them
> with pleasure.
> 
> The bottom line is: if you have time, and are looking for some cool
> software to snap, have a look for scientific and academic projects.
> Chances are that they are not packaged for Linux, and that their
> popularity can benefit a lot from being snapped.
> 
> At the same time, you'll be making snap more popular, which is always a
> win. :-)
> 
> Ciao,
>  Alberto
> 
> 
> [1]:
> http://blog.mardy.it/2017/03/making-snap-packages-of-photogrammetry.html
> 
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