As pointed out on #debian-devel, drscheme *still* hasn't made it into testing. When #116210 is closed it should make it into testing. Can you look at it again aj? please? :) * Eric Dorland (eric@debian.org) wrote: > Package: wnpp > Version: N/A; reported 2002-03-23 > Severity: normal > > Hello all, > > I'd like someone to take drscheme off my hands. When i adopted this > package I was TA for a course that used drscheme, so I had some interest > in seeing this package succeed, but as I'm no longer TAing that course, > my interest is less. Now that i've successfully gotten the package into > woody, I'd like to pass it on to someone with more interest. > > It is a good piece of software, but looking at its bug list > (http://bugs.debian.org/src:drscheme) it has its share of problems. Most > of its bugs relate to portability issues. The main portability problem > is that they have their own modified tree of libgc in the source that is > really old and doesn't work on most platforms. The other less difficult > problem is that drscheme has its own platform detection scripts, which > need to be modified slightly to support a lot of the architectures > Debian supports. > > I tried to address some of these problems on the drscheme mailing list, > but there didn't seem to be much interest in addressing these problems. > They said that upcoming v200 would address these issues, but so far the > alpha versions seem to be more of the same. > > I realise i haven't really sold this package for the next maintainer :) > However, if you like drscheme and/or want a nice little package that > needs some work, this is it. I really do think this a good piece of > software that deserves to be in debian, and i hope some others out there > think likewise. > > I request an adopter for the drscheme package. > The package description is: > This is a Scheme Programming Environment, designed for use within > an educational setting. The faculty and staff at Rice University > developed this package to be used in programming curricula, as a > supplement to mathematics courses, or for general programming > instruction in a liberal arts setting. > . > It includes its own IDE (which runs under X) and is similar in > some respects to Emacs (most noticeably in its keybindings). > . > It has an integrated help system and can run one of four > modes (beginning, intermediate, advanced, complete). Each > level exposes successively more features and options to the > user. The goal of this configuration is to protect novice users > from the more arcane behavior of Scheme under certain cases. > > Debian Release: 3.0 > Architecture: i386 > Kernel: Linux apocalypse 2.4.16 #1 Fri Nov 30 14:38:38 EST 2001 i686 > Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US > > -- Eric Dorland <dorland@lords.com> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: hooty@jabber.com 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s++: a-- C+++ UL+++ P++ L++ E++ W++ N+ o K- w+ O? M++ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5++ X+ R tv++ b+++ DI+ D+ G e h! r- y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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