On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 21:25 +0200, Teemu Ikonen wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I haven't had much time for this recently, but my todo list consists of: > > > > * Switch to the tarball used by FreeBSD (and soon Gentoo) at: > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/thierry/ > > * Conduct a thorough license/copyright "audit" of the tarball to > > make sure we have everything documented in the copyright file. > > * Upload to non-free, will probably take several iterations to get > > in. > > * Separate out the non-free bits. > > * Upload to main with non-free parts in separate package, again > > will probably take several iterations. > > * Use Jason Kraftcheck's scripts to separate it into a few > > packages, and re-upload. > > Sounds like a good plan in general, but will the FreeBDS tarball stay > up to date with the upstream version? Well, maybe it's too early to > worry about that.
Apparently they've kept up with the last few releases, so it seems a good bet they'll keep on. > > Are you interested in helping with any of the above? > > Yes, but I can't guarantee I can spend much time on opencascade. I'm > interested in free tools for 3D CAD, and as a first step I would like > to be able to display a 3D models from IGES files. Apparently FreeCAD > ( http://juergen-riegel.net/FreeCAD/Docu/index.php?title=Main_Page ) > can do this, but it needs Opencascade to compile. > > If you get a repository in Alioth (I prefer git or bzr, but can work > with other systems as well), I can try to do something. Okay, I'll post to the bug and debian-science when a repository is available. In the meantime, feel free to use the package on lyre. -Adam -- GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Engineering consulting with open source tools http://www.opennovation.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
