Bug#742704: ImplicitCad in Debian

[Bas Wijnen <wijnen@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 07:51:00AM -0700, Christopher Olah wrote:
> Presently, I no longer maintain ImplicitCAD. I've been pretty poor
> about handling this. I put it out temporarily to work on some other
> stuff and ended up getting pulled away. Now I work full time on
> machine learning research. I just don't have the cycles to keep
> another project in my head anymore. :/

Understandable; that's what it looked like.

> In any case, right now there's no upstream for ImplicitCAD. I've
> spoken to a few people who were interested in taking over maintenance,
> but they haven't ended up doing so.
> 
> ImplicitCAD, unfortunately, has a bunch of rough corners. Mostly,
> these deal with the computational costs of rendering objects at high
> resolutions and rendering issues at low resolutions.
> 
> If you're interested, I'll try and pull together remaining interest in
> ImplicitCAD and see if we can find a new maintainer. It'll need to
> wait until after the NIPS submission deadline, though.

Yes, if you could do that, that would be great!  There's no hurry, it's already
nice to know that something is happening.

Thanks,
Bas