[Stardata-common-devel] SpaceChart for GNOME 2.x?

[Kevin B. McCarty]

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Hi Miguel,

I'm part of a small Debian team maintaining some astronomical software,
including SpaceChart.  (Full disclosure: just to let you know, I am also
upstream author of StarPlot, which is a very similar project.)  We are
wondering whether you intend to release a version of SpaceChart that
will compile with GNOME and GTK 2.x libraries?  I am not sure that we
have the manpower to port it ourselves; nor do we have any wish to fork
your work.

Support for GNOME / GTK+ 1.2 in Debian is getting very sketchy.  Now
that even GnuCash, one of the last major holdouts, has moved to GNOME
2.x, the current GNOME 1.2 maintainer intends to give up maintenance of
those packages [1].  This will put us in a difficult spot with respect
to continuing to support SpaceChart, since calls for the complete
removal of GNOME 1.2 from Debian are likely only to increase [2].

Please do let us know if there is any plan to transition SpaceChart to
GTK+ and GNOME 2.

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/02/msg01120.html

[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/2005/06/msg00025.html
    http://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/2005/09/msg00073.html

P.S.  On a different topic, did you ever get an official statement from
François Ochsenbein regarding the suitability of the CCDM star catalogue
for use in Free software?

best regards,

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