Bug#728542: ITP: libpolyclipping -- polygon clipping, polygon offsetting and polyline offsetting library

[Bas Wijnen <wijnen@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 11:19:44PM +0100, Nicolas Dandrimont wrote:
> Does this have anything to do with Slic3r packaging?

No, this is a prerequisite for the Cura engine.  I thought Slic3r used a
different library, but appearantly I was wrong?  In that case I will need to
have a look at the perl package, because I suppose they have the same source
(I was planning to ignore the perl part and only package the c++ source from
upstream; it contains implementations in many other languages as well).

I can't see it in the repository though; is it already in there?

> While debugging an issue with Slic3r on 32-bit archs, I tried upgrading to
> clipper 6.0.0 and Slic3r's test suite was broken.

I have a 6.0.0 package just about ready to upload now; it might still take a
while before I do, though, because I added a pkgconfig file and upstream said
he wanted to include it, so I'll probably let that happen first.

> However, upstream intends to move to clipper 6.0.0 just after its next
> release, so we might want to wait it out a bit.

Good idea, I think.  When we need it, we can just add a perl binary package
from my source package (some help with packaging would be welcome; I don't
know any perl).

Thanks,
Bas