Re: [Review-almost GTG] Re: HDF5

2004-07-26 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Dr. Volker Zell wrote: The hdf5.README should mention zlib-1.2.1 as additional runtime requirement. Oh, right, I've added that now. make check gives a lot of failures/core dumps for me. The problematic test programs are: dtypes (failures), big (failures), mtime (core dumps), h5dump (core dumps)

Re: BLT

2004-07-23 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Corinna Vinschen wrote: There's a static lib called libBLT30.a and a symlink to ../bin/cygBLT30.dll, but there's no link library to link against the DLL, libBLT30.dll.a. Does that actually work for linking against the DLL? I thought the .dll.a lib is needed for that. libtool (e.g. building

Re: BLT

2004-07-23 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Yes, I would prefer a .dll.a file because that's the current scheme. Ok, done. Actually BLT had the command to do it, but the wrong target filename. Anyway now it makes a .dll.a, and the symlink for the .dll in lib/ is removed.

approval procedure

2004-07-23 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Could someone direct me to a e-mail archive URL or web page that describes the approval procedure for packages? I understand there are three votes needed and a review of some kind. Who is eligible to vote and who is eligible to review? Thanks.

Re: approval procedure

2004-07-23 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: The current maintainers are eligible to vote. How does one go about generating interest for packages that the maintainers would be unlikely to use themselves? E.g. packages targeted for particular pre-existing scientific communities? Is advocacy appropriate on

Re: approval procedure

2004-07-23 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: It might help if you included some info about where a particularly obscure package was leading (e.g., I have no idea what HDF5 is or does, but I may have heard of the other package you intend to produce that requires it). HDF5 is a library for fast and efficient storage

[ITP] Swarm

2004-07-23 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Hello, Here are Cygwin packages for the Swarm simulation system, a library that facilitates construction of agent-based models. The packages are available here: http://www.santafe.edu/~mgd/cygwin/swarm Here's the setup.hint file: category: Libs requires: blt tcltk libpng12 hdf5 gcc-objc cygwin

HDF5

2004-07-22 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Hello, Here are Cygwin packages for the HDF5 library. (See the setup.hint below for background.) I put it in the `Libs' category, although `Database' or some new Scientific Software category might make sense too. Here are the packages:

BLT

2004-07-22 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Hello, Here are Cygwin packages for the BLT Tcl/Tk Extension library, a fairly popular set of extension widgets for Tcl/Tk. These are for use with the native Tcl/Tk libraries, not X11 builds. http://www.santafe.edu/~mgd/cygwin/blt/blt-3.0-1-src.tar.bz2