From: Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add gctp
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 13:21:31 -0400
It sounds like you've tried emailing the authors for advice. Is that
right?
I tried 2 addresses that I found in the source distributions, but
both addresses bounced.
It looks like this gctp-2.0 is bundled with wgrib2 [0]. If there is
no
independent repository for GCTP, I'd assume that GCTP is altered
independently for each application that it's bundled with. If so, I
think it makes sense to use the bundled copy of GCTP.
Otherwise, we are basically forking GCTP and creating a new
distribution
of it, and that would require us to maintain it and test its
integration
with HDF-EOS5.
Indeed, I believe GCTP is not maintained anymore, and each project
using it makes a few small adjustments. From the changelog, it seems
GCTP was last changed March 1998.
If there's not much interest to include HDF-EOS right now, I could
also maintain the libraries as a custom packages somewhere, for the
few people who need them. I think one of the great things about Guix
is that packages defined by users or third parties integrate so
easily with the main repository.
best,
Thomas
