Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> writes:
> [Bdale Garbee]
>> Are you aware of my existing work on this?
>
> Not really, but not suprised if you are already looking at it. I just
> discovered it lacked a RFP, so decided to make one. :)
I'm not sure an RFP is really appropriate, since there's an installer
package in contrib already, but ... as you wish.
The history of openrocket packaging in Debian is long and ... horrible.
Years ago, we had a package in main, that Tom Marble helped me keep
working as more Java class library dependencies crept in. Then that got
too hard, so I switched to an installer package in contrib. That got
horrible over time too both because the upstream jar site kept changing
access path(s), and because there was/is a hard dependency on OpenJDK 8.
When the upstream development community started putting out beta
releases for the first possible stable release since March 2015, I
started working on packaging it. There are a few remaining embedded
class libraries that need to be unwound, including a JOGL thing for
which nobody seems to know where to find complete corresponding upstream
source. My work to date can be found at:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/openrocket
And packages that aren't quite policy compliant can be found on one of
my servers at
https://gag.com/apt/
Upstream agrees that the JOGL embedded class library for which they
can't point to source is a bad thing, and there's more or less a
commitment to work on that eventually... but, in typical Java
development style, since the current code "works", upstream's sense of
urgency on this is lower than mine.
Then .. in the latest twist, Sampo who was the original upstream author
re-appeared on the mailing lists in the last few days indicating that
he's quietly been working on a complete rewrite of openrocket in
Typescript, for which he has quite a bit of code working and wanted to
get some community feedback before deciding what to do with this code.
It's pretty clear that there's a split between those who would just love
to walk away from the Java code base, and those who feel too heavily
invested to walk away and, like me, worry about second system syndrome
effects here.
Anyway. I'd love to have help completing the rest of the work to make
my current/new openrocket package policy compliant and thus ready for
upload to main... hint, hint!
Bdale
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