Fwd: Re: [gnudatalanguage-devel] Fwd: Re: Bug#753620: wishlist: idl/gdl-written software
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Subject: Re: [gnudatalanguage-devel] Fwd: Re: Bug#753620: wishlist:
idl/gdl-written software
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 16:57:53 +0200
From: Gilles DUVERT <gilles.duvert@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr>
To: Sylwester Arabas <sarabas@igf.fuw.edu.pl>, 753620@bugs.debian.org
CC: gnudatalanguage-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, GDL Orion Poplawski
<orion@cora.nwra.com>
On 07/04/2014 03:25 PM, Sylwester Arabas wrote:
- how to make these packages usable for IDL / PV-WAVE users?
Since IDL is non-free, I would consider this not as a primary goal. I
would concentrate on GDL.
I wonder what Sywester means by "making useable"...
- should idlastro be splitted into multiple subpackages?
I would split it, if the different parts are somehow usable
independently. Also, not all packages may be usable under GDL (yet), right?
Those are tons of IDL script files. I doubt we can tell if a particular
script will fail or not, since it depends on how it is used and the
history. I mean, a script that makes nice plots may pass for double
precision data, and fail on integer data, a
tool using the cursor may crash only when the user clicks where nobodoy
ever would have thought clicking possible, etc...
Another point is that this idlastro --- which by the way, is the same as
"astrolib", no? is a bunch of not-so-well-if-any maintained files, do we
want to "support" (read: inherit the problems of) them?
My suggestion: we make a small installer-like script that will start at
the first use of GDL, that ask for downloading idlastro+coyotelib+mpfit
directly from their respective sites (see
http://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov/). May be do the same for gsshsg data,
as well. No need of handling that at debian level.
best
Gilles
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