On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Rafael Laboissiere <raf...@laboissiere.net > wrote:
> * Carnė Draug <carandraug+...@gmail.com> [2012-06-18 16:24]:
>
> > the new version of the vrml package is now up and should be available
> > for download (SF had some problems during the weekend but seems to have
> > been fixed now).
>
> Thanks. I prepared a Debian package for version 1.0.13 of vrml and found
> some issues:
>
> 1) There is a bug in vrml_material.m that was reported in Lauchpad,
> The patch that fixes the problem is attached below.
>
> 2) The documentation file doc/vrml-mini-howto-1.pdf was included in the
> previous tarball, but it is not present in 1.0.13. For the Debian
> package, the PDF file is now built from the LaTeX source, but it would be
> preferable to have it back into the tarball.
>
> 3) In the DESCRIPTION file, freewrl is specified as a system requirement.
> Since freewrl is not in Debian, we are currently patching
> inst/vrml_browse.m to use whitedune instead of freewrl. It would be
> actually better to check in the code for the availability of the
> different VRML browsers. In Unix or Linux, I would go with the code
> below, but I am not sure it works on every platform.
>
> #####################################################################
> browsers = {"freewrl", "whitedune"};
> for b = browsers
> [status, vrml_b_name] = system (sprintf ("which %s", b{1}));
> if status == 0
> break
> endif
> endfor
> if status == 1
> error ("No VRML browser available");
> endif
> #####################################################################
>
>
I also would like to propose the attached patch. This makes the vrml
package a bit less dependent on a UNIX-like system and re-use available
platform-independent equivalent from octave.
Michael.
octave-3.6.2-vrml-1.0.13-msvc.diff
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