Re: Bug#464400: opencascade packages
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 21:25 +0200, Teemu Ikonen wrote:
> 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.
Apparently they've kept up with the last few releases, so it seems a
good bet they'll keep on.
> > 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.
Okay, I'll post to the bug and debian-science when a repository is
available. In the meantime, feel free to use the package on lyre.
-Adam
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