Vista [Was: ODIN]

[Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de>]

[Additional CC: Gert Wollny <wollny@cns.mpg.de> who has done the Debian
 packaging in the Upstream tarball.  Gerd, we - the Debian-Med project
 would like to prepare vista as official Debian package because we try
 to build a fully functional medical environment.  Any comments to the
 Debian-Med mailing list are welcome.]

On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Michael Hanke wrote:

> BTW: I'm always having trouble finding the libvista upstream source on
> the net, but I know that it is (or has been) there.

I admit googling was not easy but finally I found it at:

     http://www.cs.ubc.ca/nest/lci/vista/vista.html

While beeing orphaned from the former upstream developers the development
seems to be continued in the MIA (no, it's not Missing In Action it is
Tools for Medical Image Analysis ;-))

     http://mia.sourceforge.net/index.html

framework.  I checked into Debian-Med SVN some preliminary (not working!,
because based on an upload from the Odin web page and heavy patches of
the autotools stuff which is not yet checked in) files - the watch file
is working in case you want to download the latest version 2.2.1.

I think it would be no real problem to come up with vista packages
before this year ends.  The following things are to be done:

   - Removing upstream debian directory (which is not working) and
     ask upstream to leave it out
   - Patching automake stuff (no problem in principle) and forewarding
     this to upstream
   - Verifying licenses
   - Packaging library

I could go for this - except somebody else wants to do the work himself.
I could give some additional hints in this case and some patches for
automake.

Moreover we should check the other stuff on the MIA page and perhaps
somebody could have a look at Odin.

Kind regards

           Andreas.

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