Hi, I came across this post again when I had another look at VMD and googled whether somebody else was intersted...
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 05:03:39PM +0100, Steffen Möller wrote: > I was proposing as a Google Summer of Code project to experiment about > extending our blends infrastructure towards those packages that are > not DFSG free and that are not even redistributable, but that may be > compiled locally with a happy upstream when there are patches coming > in. Such "everything goes through us" kind of licenses are not > ultimately nice. But must admit that I find such not so bad either. At > least they adhere to scientific principles to have everything > inspectable on source level and they do not come with any fee. So, as > a scientist I want to embrace them. And Debian Med is about science > for some good part of it. > > The GSoC student shall find out if there is some decent way to share > experiences on how to package such software through our distribution. > We cannot ship the binary. And we cannot ship the source code. It may > be a strange thought at first, but please feel reminded that many > research groups have every Open Source software they use for > production compiled from source - they would not use our binaries in > the first place. So why should we then not just offer to share our > build experience alone: > * a folder in our SCM > * a watch file to get upstream's source code > * the rest of debian/* to get it built > > For this all we could most likely extend the task list somehow to have > the package listed. And then I felt reminded about the problem how to > get arbitrary data downloaded and post-processed: maybe there should > be a build tool that reads our task list and > knows how to get the build started. I think this is a valid use-case. I once had the idea of something like module-assistant, i.e. a curses tool which knows about all the modules, eh source-only packages and lets the user compile&install them. Not sure whether any code from module-assistant could be salvaged, though. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
