[Pkg-ace-devel] Closing RC bugs

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Thomas Girard <thomas.g.girard at free.fr> wrote:

>>>> It'd be nice if patches were better documented, too. Many of the
>>>> patches, I don't know why they are required :-(
>>>
>>> debian/patches/*.dpatch files should have a comment line (starting with
>>> '## DP:'). But they are probably too terse, I've been working on these
>>> packages alone for too long. Which ones would you like to see
>>> documented?
>>
>> For instance:
>>
>> * 02-fltk-no-gl.dpatch - Why not linking against FLTK GL? Because that
>> requires OpenGL and on some systems it won't be available and FLTK is
>> not smart enough to fall back to software rendering? (I don't really
>> know FLTK)
>>
>> * 02-qt4.dpatch - Why Qt4? While no longer supported by Nokia, Qt3 is
>> still available on Debian and it's what upstream provides
>>
>> * 04-reduce-opt.dpatch - Why no optimization at all? Not even O2 ?
>>
>> * 16-skip-apps.dpatch - Why avoid those apps and not others?
>>
>> I'm sure there's a good reason for each and every patch but...
>
> I'll document these, as well as adding a README.source explaining how
> to rebuild the package.

Great, thank you.

>>>>> Do you have an alioth account?
>>>>
>>>> Yes, I do. It's pgquiles-guest
>>>
>>> Good. I am currently working on branches/5.6.3. If you familiar with
>>> SVN and willing to join the pkg-ace team then just tell me and the trunk
>>> will be yours...
>>
>> OK. I can't promise I will get something working, though. My autotools
>> skills are limited (I'm more of a CMake guy :-))
>
> You should now be able to commit to SVN (at least you're in the alioth group
> now). Please let me know if you can't.

Should I commit my ongoing work, or should I wait until I have
something that builds?

> Hmmm, maybe you could write CMake bindings for MPC so that we can get
> rid of autotools nightmare ;-) ?

CMake replaces MPC. If upstream accepted CMake, I'd gladly write the
whole buildsystem (it'd require a week working full-time, probably).

> Whenever you feel like you've something ready for review, or if you're
> stuck, please let me know. I can't tell when will be the next free slot,
> but I'll try to get ACE+TAO the attention it deserves.

Perfect, thank you.

-- 
Pau Garcia i Quiles
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