On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 07:18:58 -0600 Jc García wrote: > 2015-07-21 5:41 GMT-06:00 Zeev Pekar <zeev.pe...@avtechscientific.com>: > > Dear Gentoo Developers, > > > > We have just released the version 0.1.4 of ASL - Advanced Simulation > > Library <http://asl.org.il>. > > > > May I ask somebody to volunteer to package it for Gentoo? > > > > Packaging efforts for other distros are underway and probably can be > > helpful for Gentoo [1]. > > Really interesting library, but I doubt you will get what you expect > in this list, neither in the -dev list because as it is a library and > AFAIK there's no applications requiring it, I doubt they'll want to > add it to the main repository,
There is no rule forbidding to have library with zero consumers in the main repository. As long, as someone maintains it. > but sure there's a place in gentoo for > the library, the gentoo-science project[1], you can try create a > github issue[2] requesting the add of the library there. You could > also find more folks interested in it, this list I would say is mostly > sysadmin/troubled-user stuff. I agree, on science overlay there are more interested people. Mail to gentoo-science and gentoo-physics lists. I'm working on another branch of physics, so I'm not sure I'll be able to test this library thorough, though. Note to Zeev: if you're interested in packaging by various distributions, try to make their job easier. A quick check shows that there are version constrains on dependencies, e.g. >=vtk-6.1, but they're not mentioned in the documentation. Fixing this will save people from digging into cmake files. Best regards, Andrew Savchenko
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