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Bug#532858: marked as done (ITP: vis5d+ -- Vis5d, a free OpenGL-based volumetric visualization program for scientific datasets in 3+ dimensions.)

Your message dated Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:45:04 +0100
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and subject line Abandoning pacakging of Vis5d+
has caused the Debian Bug report #532858,
regarding ITP: vis5d+ -- Vis5d, a free OpenGL-based volumetric visualization program for scientific datasets in 3+ dimensions.
to be marked as done.

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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@debian.org>

* Package name    : vis5d+
  Version         : 1.2.0
  Upstream Author : Bill Hibbard
* URL             : http://vis5d.sourceforge.net
* License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : Vis5d, a free OpenGL-based volumetric visualization program for scientific datasets in 3+ dimensions.

Vis5d+ is intended as a central repository for enhanced versions and development work on Vis5d, a free OpenGL-based volumetric visualization program 
for scientific datasets in 3+ dimensions.

This project started out, with the blessing of the original Vis5d developers, as a conversion of Vis5d's build process to use GNU autoconf and 
automake. (Inspired by the difficulty of getting Vis5d to compile on the author's LinuxPPC PowerBook.) It quickly became apparent that many other 
enhancements were possible, and were of wide interest to users. Moreover, a large number of enhanced versions to Vis5d exist that have not been merged 
into the original Vis5d sources, due to time and resource limitations of the original developers, or to differences of opinion about design directions. 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

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Hi,

Unfortunately I am abandoning attempts to package Vis5d+ for Debian.
It includes a non-free graphical toolkit, lua, which cannot be included in Debian. There is an initial port within the source to gtk+ to replace the lua toolkit, which it was hoped 
could be used, dropping the lua sources from a dfsg-free tarball.
Unfortunately it appears the GTK+ work has stalled, and was based on gtk-1.2, which 
is no longer in Debian.
In the meantime, Paraview has been packaged for Debian, and I am using it for my 
visualsation needs, so the urgency for vis5d+ have dropped.

Regards,
Alastair

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Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world 
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