Dear Debian Scientists, Denis Barbier has brought to my attention the OpenCASCADE Community Edition, or OCE, a project intended to bring together all of the community-generated patches, track bugs, and maybe try some new things. It's discussed at http://www.opencascade.org/org/forum/thread_20111/ which I just mostly read through. I think there are still slightly divergent opinions on whether it should be a fork or just a bugfix repository of use to both upstream and the community. The project is hosted at https://github.com/tpaviot/oce/ which is limited to the /ros directory. It has had 67 commits in the past month, which compares to 7.6 bug fixes/month for upstream between the 6.3.0 and 6.5.0 releases. The question to Debian is: do we package OCC or OCE? If OCE, do we change the name, or just trust that the changes are minor and fully compatible? If the changes are just minor, then do we just gather the git patches in debian/patches? Denis and I feel that changing to OCE is the right way to go forward. But we would like to get feedback from other users and reverse-dependency user/developers before proceeding. What do you think? -Adam LAM Delenda Est!! As soon as I get time to patch mpich2 for Lucas... -- GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Engineering consulting with open source tools http://www.opennovation.com/
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