Bug#291432: RFP: gtybalt -- computer algebra system (CAS) based on GiNaC with optional TeXmacs GUI
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 01:39:04PM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
> I am planning to package this myself, but I won't have time until mid to
> late summer (after my thesis is finished). So if anyone else wants to grab
> it in the meantime, they are welcome to.
>
> The biggest problem is that gTybalt currently depends upon Root, which
> is not DFSG-free and has some legal issues, for graphing functionality.
> There is apparently movement to fix the Root issues by making it DFSG-free:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/01/msg01166.html
> If that doesn't come to anything, gTybalt's upstream intends to rework
> the program to use gnuplot or some other freely licensed grapher instead.
Avoid gnuplot if you can, the license is GPL-incompatible and not one we
should encourage (See bug #100612 for why).
> gTybalt also depends upon a few other pieces of open-source code (cint,
> nestedsums, NTL) that aren't currently packaged for Debian.
I use NTL, but given it is a static-only C++ library I never felt the
need to package it. (Also it is heavily tuned at build-time, so a
generic build is likely to be slower than a tuned build, and I tend to
massage it a bit, so I need to recompile it anyway).
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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