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Re: OSCAR 10.12 has been packaged



Andreas

I am uncertain as to your meaning as to what would happen if we
packaged through you.

Let me introduce myself a bit further.  I am am an associate professor
of medicine at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine who is
volunteering his time to help package OSCAR, a project of another
medical school McMaster.  I, alas, have not been schooled as a
programmer,  so thank you in advance for your patience with elementary
questions.

The timing of this communication is fortuitous.  We are indeed at the
moment going through policy and such to have ourselves placed in a
repository.  We picked Ubuntu as it is a common distro, I have hand
written a simple .deb that we have tested and released at Sourceforge
but have not yet made a .dsc

The version that we intend to distribute is 10_12 which is ISO
certified and is in late beta early release candidate form.  We have
just transferred to Git from CVS so forgive us if we are not following
conventions.  To get our code you

git clone -b new_RELEASE_10_12
git://oscarmcmaster.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/oscarmcmaster/oscar

10_12 is the last version that compiles with ant.  I have not tested
if it compiles with maven, but it is supposed to.

Our intention is to make OSCAR readily available to as many users as
might like to give us a try through apt-get or its GUI equivalent.

As OSCAR is a WAR binary that needs MySQL Tomcat6 and Java, its
sufficiently abstracted from the architecture and the kernel, I suffer
under the naive belief that it should not be hard to form a generic
package that would work in most if not all Debian type distributions.

As our target distro is Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, it seems to make sense to
continue our work there to be entered into the Ubuntu repository.
Please explain why we would want to package with you, if that would
make our work with Ubuntu void?
================
Peter Hutten-Czapski
Haileybury Ontario

"The attitude that ‘if rural people want these services they’ll have
to come to the city to get them’ is simply not acceptable…” (Newbery,
1999)

Before printing, think about the environment. Avant d' imprimer,
pensez à l'environnement.



On 10 July 2011 02:24, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 06:43:59PM -0400, Peter Hutten-Czapski wrote:
>> Thank you
>> We have been manual install for seven years
>> I am starting to maintain Windows Ubuntu Mint this year
>> I have no intention of packaging oscar-mcmaster for debian today...
>> perhaps tomorrow
>
> Please be assured that we would like to support your intend to build
> official Debian packages even the day after tomorrow.  To make sure you
> will have really understood what we want to provide: Debian Med is a so
> called Debian Prue Blend which is working completely inside official
> Debian.  That means if you get your package bundled for Debian (by the
> help of our team) your work to get it packaged for any other Debian or
> Ubuntu derivative becomes void because you just have it ready in a
> policy conform and tested package.
>
>> this is just a hello and what we are up to
>
> Thanks anyway.
>
>> PS the source is by GIT from our sourcecode project page
>
> I have seen that this is at sourceforge, but
>
> $ git clone git://oscarmcmaster.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/oscarmcmaster/oscarmcmaster
> Cloning into oscarmcmaster...
> warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository.
>
> And by the way: I was not asking about the actual source but whether we
> can have a look at a *.dsc file (the Debian Source package which is
> usually created in the build process of a Debian package).
>
> Kind regards
>
>      Andreas.
>
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> http://fam-tille.de
>


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