On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 12:33:09PM +0100, aetherlux wrote:
Hi everybody,
I opened the ITP for gnudatalanguage about two years ago. [...]
afaik, the versions built by Sergio and Heimy has a lack, they
don't have save/re
store support. This feature is available in the last
gnudatalanguage version, but
it is done through CMSVLIB (by Craig Marqwardt, available from
http://cow.physic
s.wisc.edu/~craigm/idl/down/cmsvlib.tar.gz). afaik, this library
is not packaged
for Debian.
I am not a lawyer, but I have my doubts that cmsvlib can be
included in
Debian, I would not agree to the IDL EULA without ever having seen
it or
without even using IDL:
http://cow.physics.wisc.edu/~craigm/idl/down/LICENSE.RSI
It is probably not even redistributable by Debian ("please obtain
permission
before redistributing"), but since cmsvlib just contains a bunch
of .pro
files, can't every user, who agrees to the IDL EULA, just install that
package locally if he needs to use save files?
I propose again to handle gnudatalanguage via the pkg-scicomp svn
repository. Sergo agreed that we could use his packaging as a starting
point, and I must say it looks pretty neat, everything is handled
by cbds. I
could do the initial commit to the svn, but it would be nice if
there was a
co-maintainer. Especially since I don't really use IDL...