Dear Mr. Beckert, all gdl developers,
I am perplexed by the apparent necessity for gdl to run on non-intel platforms
such as powerpc to be properly accepted by the debian distribution.
The point is, gdl is, until further notice, a free replacement of IDL to be used to run instrumental data reduction pipelines, etc. This means that the pipelines exist, are already in use with IDL, so they actually run on intel architectures only. This
explains also why gdl developers develop solely on those architectures (they have IDL in parallel to compare results, etc.). Obviously, it explains also why we are bound to find bugs when going to ppc architectures. (only one compilation bug seems even
ridiculoulsy few!).
My advice for what it is worth:
In view of this, and to stick to the alleged rationale for GDL, I think it is best to restrict the compilation of gdl to platforms, i.e., Intel 32 and 64 bits. Doing otherwise, although an interesting possibility, would, in my opinion, add suspicion about
the motives of providing a free clone of IDL.
Best regards to all, and thanks to Axel for your support for gdl in debian.
Gilles Duvert
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