Bug#457075: Salome platform - Progress?
2009/6/12 Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@debian.org>:
> On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 04:43 +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
>> Any progress on Salome platform packaging? ITP #457075 ?
>
> No, afraid I haven't even tried the new version. My old package is
> available at http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/salome/ but it took some 100+
> hours to patch it to get to that state, and upstream *never* replied to
> *any* of my inquiries about merging my patches, even when I tracked down
> a developer through some other leads and wrote a long email in French.
>
Thanks a lot for your work.
> The good news is that with OpenCASCADE in main and Qt 4.5 with LGPL,
> Salomé is now legal -- and can go into main.
>
This is certainly interesting.
> I could just upload my old package, but don't have a lot of impetus to
> work on anything new. Feel free to pick it up and work on it yourself.
> I've moved on to Gmsh and Elmer for my work.
>
I do consider Gmsh. It is nice. But is there anything better than gmsh
for creating geometry models in IGES and STEP (NURBS ;-) )?
>> =/
>
> Indeed...
>
Heh. One day all upstreams will become amazing and friendly.......
> -Adam
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Dmitrijs Ledkovs (for short Dima),
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