From: Rafael L. <rla...@us...> - 2005-04-28 19:33:03
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I am preparing the Debian packages for 5.5.2. The great new features will be the new libplplot9-java and plplot9-driver-gcw packages. The later will replace/conflict with plplot9-driver-gnome, such that upgrade from the 5.3.1 packages will be smooth. I have a question which is directed to the Debian users lurking here. How should I package the gcw/python stuff? Should I create a new package for it (if yes, suggestion for the package name are welcome) or should I include it in plplot9-driver-gcw? -- Rafael |
From: Rajeev A. <au...@sl...> - 2005-04-28 19:55:29
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My two cents worth: I recommend the latter option. It's consistent with the current structure of plplot. -Reggie. On 4/28/05 2:32 PM, "Rafael Laboissiere" <rla...@us...> wrote: > I am preparing the Debian packages for 5.5.2. The great new features will > be the new libplplot9-java and plplot9-driver-gcw packages. The later will > replace/conflict with plplot9-driver-gnome, such that upgrade from the 5.3.1 > packages will be smooth. > > I have a question which is directed to the Debian users lurking here. > How should I package the gcw/python stuff? Should I create a new package > for it (if yes, suggestion for the package name are welcome) or should I > include it in plplot9-driver-gcw? ----------- Rajeev Aurora, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Saint Louis University School of Medicine 1402 South Grand Blvd. M410 St. Louis, MO 63104 Voice: (314) 977-8891 Fax: (314) 977-8717 Web: http://macro.slu.edu |
From: Rafael L. <rla...@us...> - 2005-04-28 20:16:30
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* Rajeev Aurora <au...@sl...> [2005-04-28 14:46]: > On 4/28/05 2:32 PM, "Rafael Laboissiere" <rla...@us...> > wrote: > > > I have a question which is directed to the Debian users lurking here. > > How should I package the gcw/python stuff? Should I create a new package > > for it (if yes, suggestion for the package name are welcome) or should I > > include it in plplot9-driver-gcw? > > My two cents worth: I recommend the latter option. It's consistent with > the current structure of plplot. Thanks for your comment, but I am afraid I do not understand the logic behind it. Why putting the python stuff into plplot9-driver-gcw would be consistent with the "current structure of PLplot"? (BTW, which structure are you referring to?) The problem with the second option is that plplot9-driver-gcw will have to depend on Python and this is against the modularization approach in Debian. OTOH, creating a new package my be an overkill. -- Rafael |
From: Rafael L. <rla...@us...> - 2005-04-29 21:31:19
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Now that the libplplotcanvas issue is (almost) solved in CVS, I reiterate my question: * Rafael Laboissiere <rla...@us...> [2005-04-28 21:32]: > I have a question which is directed to the Debian users lurking here. > How should I package the gcw/python stuff? Should I create a new package > for it (if yes, suggestion for the package name are welcome) or should I > include it in plplot9-driver-gcw? -- Rafael |
From: Alan W. I. <ir...@be...> - 2005-04-30 17:52:40
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On 2005-04-29 23:31+0200 Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > Now that the libplplotcanvas issue is (almost) solved in CVS, I reiterate > my question: > > * Rafael Laboissiere <rla...@us...> [2005-04-28 21:32]: > >> I have a question which is directed to the Debian users lurking here. >> How should I package the gcw/python stuff? Should I create a new package >> for it (if yes, suggestion for the package name are welcome) or should I >> include it in plplot9-driver-gcw? I assume we are discussing the following 5 files: cplplotcanvasmodule.so, gcwmodule.so, and plplotcanvas.py in site-packages and plplotcanvas_animation.py and plplotcanvas_demo.py in examples/python. One possibility is just make them part of python-plplot (which already contains files in site-packages and examples/python). However, that adds an enormous number of dependencies to python-plplot so, instead, I suggest the 5 files should be put in a separate new package called python-plplot-gcw. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin email: ir...@be... phone: 250-727-2902 Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ |
From: Rafael L. <rla...@us...> - 2005-04-30 22:36:38
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* Alan W. Irwin <ir...@be...> [2005-04-30 10:52]: > I assume we are discussing the following 5 files: cplplotcanvasmodule.so, > gcwmodule.so, and plplotcanvas.py in site-packages and > plplotcanvas_animation.py and plplotcanvas_demo.py in examples/python. Yes. > One possibility is just make them part of python-plplot (which already > contains files in site-packages and examples/python). However, that > adds an enormous number of dependencies to python-plplot so, instead, I > suggest the 5 files should be put in a separate new package called > python-plplot-gcw. Thanks for your suggestion. I am leaning toward the solution you propose. -- Rafael |