On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 04:18:15PM +0100, Andreas Kuckartz wrote: > Unfortunately Manuel Op de Coul, the author of Scala > (http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/scala/), currently does not want to change his > non-commercial license ("perhaps in the future"). But he made this offer: > "However if someone makes a Debian package for it, I'll be happy to distribute > it." > > Scala is written in Ada. If someone wants to help with building a Debian > package, please let him know.
The binary that Manuel supplies should work on Debian, so it's packaging only that's required. I had this problem the last time I updated Scala: the database consists of textfiles with lines terminated by CR+LF. The linux binary didn't seem to like this format, and I had to convert all the files (a small script is all it takes). -- FA
