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Registry for Molecular Simulation Packages
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Retire MolSim #6

Open cortner opened 1 year ago

cortner commented 1 year ago

It appears that - aside from DFTK.jl - I am the only one using this registry. DFTK.jl is more than ready to move to General (probably has been for a while, may it's already in General?).

In the meantime I occasionally get grumpy users asking what the point of the local registry is.

I am therefore wondering out loud ... should we just (1) shut down the MolSim registry (2) move general-use and mature packages to General (3) For my own group's purposes / the ACE eco-system I create a new local registry

thoughts? @mfherbst ? anybody else?

mfherbst commented 1 year ago

(probably has been for a while, may it's already in General?).

Yes, most people have been using it exclusively from General.

In the meantime I occasionally get grumpy users asking what the point of the local registry is.

Yes, opinions differ here. I honestly have not found custom registries useful in my everyday Julia coding, so I have not really been using them a lot. But I see why they could be useful, so I don't really have a strong opinion.

Regarding MolSim, I'm not really depending on it, but it also does not bother me, so either way (closing or not) is fine with me. :)

antoine-levitt commented 1 year ago

I thought you were the one pushing for custom registries @cortner , so if you want to close it it's fine by me. Indeed DFTK uses General.

cortner commented 1 year ago

Yes, that was my assumption as well (and now with massive data to support it) ... but given I'm not the sole owner of this org I didn't feel I can take this step on my own.

So unless I hear any other optnions I will now take the following steps: