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Bug#462631: current status



On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:32:21 +0100 Ondrej Certik wrote:

> Hi Francesco,

Hi!  :)

> 
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 12:23:00AM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote:
[...]
> > I wonder if you managed to link Paraview against (and make it work
> > properly with) libraries already packaged and included in Debian.
> 
> Not yet. Currently we are still trying to make it compile on i386 and
> amd64 together with MPI and python. We just succeeded in the compilation
> itself, so at least the package builds now.

I see.

> 
> Unfortunately, the python scripting still isn't working at runtime. When
> this is fixed, only then we'll try to build shared libraries and reuse
> as much as possible from Debian to reduce the sice of the paraview
> binary package (currently 100MB).

Really huge!  I hope you soon manage to successfully package it without
the "extraneous" libraries!

[...]
> If you would like to help us, it'd be awesome.

I'm afraid I do not (yet) have enough packaging experience to help
out...  I should start packaging something easier, first!  ;-)


Bye, and good luck!

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