What are the missing dependencies for Jmol 13? Emmanuel Bourg
Le 07/03/2014 19:37, Michael Banck a écrit : > Hi, > > On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 07:10:44PM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote: >> Jmol is a nice and useful 3D chemical structures viewer application, >> which is written in Java. It can be run as a standalone application >> and it also ships an interactive web browser applet and a Java >> development tollkit. >> >> Since some time the Jmol package is lacking behind the latest upstream >> releases. Current version in Debian is 12.X whereas upstream already >> reached 14.X. With the release of the 13.X series, Jmol added some >> more external libraries, which it uses and ships. So to get the latest >> Jmol release into Debian/main a maintainer is required, who is willing >> to maintain Jmol along with its dependencies. This requires some basic >> Java knowledge. Also note, that the upstream build system (the last >> time I checked) usually puts all classes - Jmol and its dependencies - >> into one JAR file, so you usually have to hack the build system too. >> >> If nobody steps up, I'm going to request its removal from Debian, as >> it seems unuseful to me, to ship an outdated piece of software. > > If somebody wants to step up to help, be my guest. Note that I believe > there is/will be a Javascript version of Jmol at one point, which might > make some thing easier, not sure. > > In any case, I plan to update it in time for the jessie freeze at least, > but I currently don't have a lot of time to dedicate to it. > > > Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/531a1bf8.30...@apache.org
