jed-B0.99-17.135 available

[John E. Davis]

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:18:07 +0200, Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian.org> said:
>Yes, it is a good idea to package the other slang modules for Debian.
>Using slang-gdbm as a template, the other packages can be done quite
>quickly, I guess.  Unfortunately, I do not have much free time for that
>right now.  At any rate, could you please make a list of candidate
>modules, in priority order?

First, I am glad to see that the slsh package for debian includes the
modules distributed with slang.  Thanks.

There are several modules that I wrote and continue to support listed on
<http://space.mit.edu/cxc/software/slang/modules/>, including:

     * histogram: histogram module
     * SLgsl: GNU Scientific Library        (libgsl0-dev)
     * cfitsio: FITS I/O Library            (libcfitsio-dev)
     * pvm: PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine)  (pvm-dev)

I believe that it would be fairly straighforward to create debian
packages for those.  Each builds and installs using `configure; make
install'.  Of these, I believe that the one that is most useful is the
histogram module, which has no external dependencies.  For example,
recently I posted a script to the jed-users list that used the
histogram module to extract the colors from an image for the purpose
of creating a color-scheme.

The GSL module is also generically useful as it contains support for a
number of random number generators, which occur in a wide-variety of
applications.   The cfitsio and pvm modules are are more specialized.

Finally, there is the GTK module, written by Mike Noble.  I have never
compiled it so I am unable to say how easy it would be to package.
Nevertheless I think that if it were available, jed users could make
use of it.

Thanks,
--John