On Feb 12, 2014 4:54 PM, "Christopher Meng" <cicku...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2014-2-12 PM6:32于 "Sandro Mani" <manisan...@gmail.com>写道:
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> > By the way, concerning OpenCASCADE, this would also open up the
possibility for packaging Code-Aster and Salome for Fedora. I once started
looking at packaging them, but stalled of since it's quite an effort.
Anyone else interested in joining the effort?
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> Eric Smith is packaging it already.

I asked on the Fedora Legal list whether it was OK to package it with the
new license, and the answer was yes. I worked on an RPM, but several people
suggested that it would be better to wait for OCE (downstream) to be
rebased on the new OpenCASCADE release, and the OCE package to be moved
from RPM Fusion into Fedora.

Previously I had been unaware of the existence of OCE. Since there are
already packages in RPM Fusion using it, which may also be able to move
into Fedora after OCE does, I abandoned packaging my own RPM for
OpenCASCADE.

I don't know how long it will take for OCE to make it into Fedora. If other
developers don't want to wait for that, I could resume my efforts or
collaborate with other developers to finish an OpenCASCADE package.
However, then we'd likely end up with two forks in Fedora, which seems
somewhat undesirable.

Richard Shaw is the OCE package maintainer. He just emailed me today about
it. At the very least, if anyone does work on packaging OpenCASCADE, it
would be worthwhile to try to somehow coordinate things with him to try to
have an orderly transition plan, since OCE is probably the preferred
long-term solution. As Richard points out, OCE has a better (more
maintainable) build system.

Eric
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