On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 12:33:09PM +0100, aetherlux wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > I opened the ITP for gnudatalanguage about two years ago. First of all, I > apologi > ze for the delay. I have not had time, knowledge or dedication to build a > package > . Moreover I found problems with libraries don't packaged. > A few months ago, my sponsor Ricardo Javier Cárdenes Medina «Heimy» built > a pa > ckage. > > A few days ago Sergio Gelato reported that he had built the files needed to > packa > ge gnudatalanguage. > > A few months ago somebody requested me the package built by Heimy, it was to > be u > sed in the Max-Planck Institute. Heimy has used his > package for his own purpouses in the IAC (Instituto de AstrofÃsica de > Canarias). > > afaik, the versions built by Sergio and Heimy has a lack, they don't have > save/re > store support. This feature is available in the last gnudatalanguage version, > but > it is done through CMSVLIB (by Craig Marqwardt, available from > http://cow.physic > s.wisc.edu/~craigm/idl/down/cmsvlib.tar.gz). afaik, this library is not > packaged > for Debian.
I am not a lawyer, but I have my doubts that cmsvlib can be included in Debian, I would not agree to the IDL EULA without ever having seen it or without even using IDL: http://cow.physics.wisc.edu/~craigm/idl/down/LICENSE.RSI It is probably not even redistributable by Debian ("please obtain permission before redistributing"), but since cmsvlib just contains a bunch of .pro files, can't every user, who agrees to the IDL EULA, just install that package locally if he needs to use save files? I propose again to handle gnudatalanguage via the pkg-scicomp svn repository. Sergo agreed that we could use his packaging as a starting point, and I must say it looks pretty neat, everything is handled by cbds. I could do the initial commit to the svn, but it would be nice if there was a co-maintainer. Especially since I don't really use IDL... Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
