Re: Bug#464400: opencascade packages
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@debian.org> wrote:
> I haven't had much time for this recently, but my todo list consists of:
>
> * Switch to the tarball used by FreeBSD (and soon Gentoo) at:
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/thierry/
> * Conduct a thorough license/copyright "audit" of the tarball to
> make sure we have everything documented in the copyright file.
> * Upload to non-free, will probably take several iterations to get
> in.
> * Separate out the non-free bits.
> * Upload to main with non-free parts in separate package, again
> will probably take several iterations.
> * Use Jason Kraftcheck's scripts to separate it into a few
> packages, and re-upload.
Sounds like a good plan in general, but will the FreeBDS tarball stay
up to date with the upstream version? Well, maybe it's too early to
worry about that.
> Are you interested in helping with any of the above?
Yes, but I can't guarantee I can spend much time on opencascade. I'm
interested in free tools for 3D CAD, and as a first step I would like
to be able to display a 3D models from IGES files. Apparently FreeCAD
( http://juergen-riegel.net/FreeCAD/Docu/index.php?title=Main_Page )
can do this, but it needs Opencascade to compile.
If you get a repository in Alioth (I prefer git or bzr, but can work
with other systems as well), I can try to do something.
Teemu
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