[Pkg-octave-devel] Re: Patch for using system's FTGL in OctPlot

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Shai Ayal <shaiay at gmail.com> [2006-01-28 08:29]:

> Thank you for your work towards integrating octplot in Debian.

You are welcome.  And thanks for developing OctPlot.  I hope it will help
to improve the graphical interfaces for Octave.

> Just to make sure I have everything straight:
> 
> 1) I will apply the two patches unrelated to FTGL

Great.

> 2) Octplot will continue to use it's "own" FTGL since the FTGL
> distribution does not compile well with cygwin and it is no longer
> being maintained. I am also not sure how to make it a shred library
> under cygwin.

I think this is okay, although it is a maintenance burden for you.  At
any rate, in the Debian octplot package we gave up trying to compile
against the

> 3) The copyright issue: Is there anything I can do about it?

No, your copyright notices are perfectly fine.  The problem with the
package approval was due to our sloppiness to describe (in the Debian
copyright file) the various license terms of the source files in OctPlot.

> 4) A new version -- soon ... Probably before the end of March. If you
> need anything faster, I could produce 0.3.1 with the above patches and
> some more improvements I already have (like rudimentary legend
> support).

We do not need a new release, since the Debian package contains the
necessary patches.  If/when you make a new release, please announce it in
pkg-octave-devel, such that the DOG members will be aware of it.

Regards,

-- 
Rafael