On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 13:19 +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote: > Hi Adam & rest of list, > > I've been checking the archives for progress on Salomé's ITP, which > seemed quite promising back in March. However, after the success with > the OpenCASCADE effort, I see no more references to Salomé. > > Is the ITP stalled for some licensing reason, or do the compile problems > still apply and have not been resolved yet? I have resolved the compile problems, but at runtime, none of the modules load. (As noted in this bug, you can get the latest at http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/salome/ .) I've solved this problem before, and could solve it again. But upstream practices are really frustrating me. They released a new binary 3.2.9 Salomé-MECA back in -- forgot, March? -- but with no source code. So any new effort I make is already obsolete. Furthermore, they have never released the source of the MECA extensions, even though this is supposed to be an open source project. To add insult to injury, they have *never* replied to ANY of my emails or website inquiries. (I even took the time to write to specific developers in French, but with no reply.) I have put a *TON* of effort into this, on the order of 100 hours, as you can see from the nearly 50 patches, and really feel blown off and disrespected by upstream. At some point I'll give up on upstream and go ahead and fix the 3.2.6 package, essentially maintaining a Debian fork until upstream releases more source. But this is a very low priority for the above reasons. While ranting about upstream, I should thank Sylvestre Ledru for participating in the discussion with upstream, including using some of his contacts to try to move this along. I hear there will be a meeting in September to try to resolve some of these issues, and will return to packaging work if something comes out of this process. > PS: please CC, I'm not subscribed to this list. [Likewise for followups.] -Adam -- 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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