From: daniel.pr...@monash.edu
Hi Gurkan,
I would be *very* interested if you could officially package splash for debian
and/or ubuntu. You may have noticed I have splash in Macports already (though this
is currently the stable 1.x package, not using giza), so it would be great to have
something similar for linux.
There are two issues with "unbundling" the tarball:
- splash assumes that giza is in a subdirectory, so you would need to separately
place giza in the correct subdirectory. This assumption could be easily changed
but it is what is currently in the Makefile.
- it is not (yet) guaranteed that a given version of splash (e.g. 2.0 beta) will
work with a later version of giza (e.g. taken from sourceforge), so you would need
to make sure the versions line up. You can be guaranteed that the latest svn copy
of splash should always work with the latest svn copy of giza (I develop both in
tandem with each other, adding features to giza as I need them in splash), but
this will not be true if you mix the splash tarball and an arbitrary giza version.
The main issue here is that the giza API is not yet stable, so later versions of
giza may not be backwards compatible with earlier versions (furthermore I will not
declare the API stable or attempt to retain backwards compatibility until I have
at least reached v1.0 of giza). As giza becomes more stable this should become
less of an issue in future.
So, I'm happy to provide a standalone tarball of splash:
http://users.monash.edu.au/~dprice/splash/releases/splash-2.0-beta-nogiza.tar.gz
MD5 (splash-2.0-beta-nogiza.tar.gz) = baa8a938869e802e1a6735e1880c8ab6
SHA1(splash-2.0-beta-nogiza.tar.gz)= 1f3c9d14557d41466129b270d57da92e480eb149
RIPEMD160(splash-2.0-beta-nogiza.tar.gz)=
7fb6c6b39c0448f5f2ff9430edd92d450221935f
...but you should beware of the above points.
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