On Tue, 2015-07-21 at 16:55 +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > 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.
Even just packaging will be great contribution. Thank you for tips - I'll mail also to the both lists. > 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. Fixed: http://asl.org.il/documentation/ Zeev
