Re: Future of TreeView X in Debian.

[Tony Travis <ajt@minke.ukfsn.org>]

On 18/07/14 10:34, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 08:21:34AM +0000, Daniel Barker wrote:
>>
>> For visualising trees, Dendroscope is good and flexible:
>>
>> http://dendroscope.org/
>>
>> It is available free of charge but does have a licence key. I'm not sure
>> how this would fit with Debian packaging.
> 
> I'm pretty sure this will not fit at all.  We simply need a free source.
> The only thing we could do is trying to convince the author to free the
> source code.  Wondering about the sense of a license key in a free of
> charge product ... but I left the binary only world to long ago ...

Hi, Andreas.

Tim has already packaged Dendroscope for Bio-Linux:

> ajt@beluga:~$ apt-cache policy bio-linux-dendroscope
> bio-linux-dendroscope:
>   Installed: 1.4.0-5
>   Candidate: 1.4.0-5
>   Version table:
>  *** 1.4.0-5 0
>         500 http://nebc.nerc.ac.uk/bio-linux/ unstable/bio-linux amd64 Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Bye,

  Tony.