Re: GinkgoCADx is finished :(
Hello Dmitry,
> Subject: GinkgoCADx is finished :(
That is _really_ a pity.
In case that's really it for GinkgoCADx let me thank you here
and now for the work you have put into this package until
this day.
Karsten
> Today I've learned that MetaEmotion (developer of Ginkgo CADx) was acquired
> by Nielsen [1] who apparently have no interest in medical software
> (Ginkgo CADx in particular) and seems to have no appreciation to free
> software. Development of Ginkgo CADx appears to be ceased and most likely
> there will be no new releases.
>
> If anyone wants to fork GinkgoCADx, now will be a good time to do so.
>
> --
>
> ## Current status in Debian:
>
> I've updated "ginkgocadx" repository with fixes required to build it
> with "libinsighttoolkit4-dev" and with GCC-5. Due to current state of
> GCC-5 transition it is not yet possible to build "ginkgocadx" in "sid"
> because of unmet dependencies:
>
> libstdc++6 : Breaks: libinsighttoolkit4.7 (<= 4.7.2-2) but 4.7.2-2 is to be installed.
>
> The biggest problem is that something else has changed and "-DNDEBUG"
> no longer helps to avoid asserts with WX-3.0 so GinkgoCADx crashes with
> errors like this:
>
> usr/include/wx-3.0/wx/strvararg.h(456): assert "(argtype &
> (wxFormatStringSpecifier<T>::value)) == argtype" failed in
> wxArgNormalizer(): format specifier doesn't match argument type
>
> Unfortunately I can't fix those type mismatches on my own...
>
> [1]: http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=303052091
>
> --
> Regards,
> Dmitry Smirnov.
>
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>
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> it, but in the end; there it is.
> -- Winston Churchill
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