On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 6:26 PM David Bremner <da...@tethera.net> wrote: > Doug Torrance <dtorra...@piedmont.edu> writes: > > I'm interested in packaging TOPCOM as it is a dependency of Macaulay2, > > which I am working to package for Debian (#439888). I will maintain > > TOPCOM under the umbrella of the Debian Science Team. > > It can be used by polymake as well, so when you have something working > let me know and I'll test that interface.
Thanks for your note! I've been pushing my progress so far to Salsa: https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/topcom It's still pretty rough (no d/copyright, tons of Lintian stuff to address, etc.), but it builds. I'm curious if you have any thoughts on one decision I've made. I've prefixed all of the binaries with "topcom-". There are a few of them with very generic names (e.g., "cube"). The Gentoo and Fedora maintainers chose to do use a prefix with just some of the binaries, but I figured I'd go all the way. Looking ahead to the Macaulay2 interface, I don't want to have to worry about which binaries have the prefix and which don't. Doug
