On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 03:31:58PM +1000, Stephen Gordon wrote: > Jepri wrote: > > Roman Kennke wrote: > > > >> Hi list, > >> > >> I have put together a small program for information visualization and > >> mind-mapping and a debian package for it. I'm looking for a sponsor to > >> possibly get this into Debian. > >> > >> Ontographics is a Java program, which (at the moment) depends on > >> j2sdk1.4, which is not in Debian and non-free. The application itself is > >> GPLed, so it could only go into contrib. My plans are to make it working > >> with free stuff only, but it is not sure, when this will be finished. > >> > >> The homepage for the program is here: > >> http://ontographics.com/source/ > >> > >> The Debian stuff (source and binary packages) can be found here: > >> http://ontographics.com/source/debian/ > >> > >> What do I have to do, to get these things uploaded into Debian? > >> > >> Cheers, > >> /Roman > > Hi, > > I dowloaded and had a look. To start withm you've hardcoded the path > > the java in your program, which is bad: > > > > jepri@luciole:~$ ontographics > > /usr/bin/ontographics: line 2: /usr/lib/j2se/1.4/bin/java: No such file > > or directory > > /usr/bin/ontographics: line 2: exec: /usr/lib/j2se/1.4/bin/java: cannot > > execute: No such file or directory > > > > > > Also, I'm not sure about the actual function of your program. It draws > > some rather good looking lines and boxes, but there's a couple of > > programs in Debian that already do that (e.g. Dia ). And they don't > > need a non-free program to do it. > > > > Maybe I missed some functionality somewhere? > > > Hi, > I think this is aimed toward documenting brainstorm sessions... > For an example of commercial software that does this check > http://www.mindjet.com > > Never used dia, but duplicate functionality shouldn't be an issue IMO -- > a brief glance through the 'net' section should reveal zillions of > duplicate-functionality packages. > > For myself, I'd love something like this in debian - and I'd encourage > Roman to continue his work toward making it totally free. However I've > never packaged anything so I can't comment on technical issues :) > > Roman, you should look at free java components - especially check out > the free-java-sdk, gij, gcj, classpath packages. > Stephen. > Please make it possible to have in the mailinglist archive E-mails with the conclusion at the end of the thread that be read as easy as > > > > knock knock > > > Who is it? > > Merry > Mary WHO ?? Merry Christmas Cheers Geert Stappers
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