Now that Rafael has stepped down from working on the plplot I am keen that we don't lose the debian / ubuntu packages for plplot. This has been a big step forward in terms of increasing our user base and making plplot easily available.
There are two related issues here. 1) The current rules for building debian packages uses the autotools build system which is now being depreciated. In fact, when I tried today I couldn't get the packages to build at all. This may be error on my part though, I will investigate further. Unfortunately it is not entirely straight forward to do it from the CVS and there are no instructions. We need to port this to use the cmake build system - my intention is also to work on this. Hopefully this will help us with 2) 2) Find a new debian developer to maintain the packages. If we can do some of the support work within the plplot project this should be a relatively simple job. Both Alan and I are debian / ubuntu users but neither of us are developers. Ideally the maintainer should be someone using plplot / already associated with the project. Are there any debian / ubuntu developers out there who would be willing to take over maintainance of the debian packages, with our help? Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
