Re: [PATCH] Add gctp

[Thomas Danckaert <post@thomasdanckaert.be>]

From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add gctp
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 13:21:31 -0400

> It sounds like you've tried emailing the authors for advice. Is that
> right?

I tried 2 addresses that I found in the source distributions, but 
both addresses bounced.

> It looks like this gctp-2.0 is bundled with wgrib2 [0]. If there is 
> no
> independent repository for GCTP, I'd assume that GCTP is altered
> independently for each application that it's bundled with. If so, I
> think it makes sense to use the bundled copy of GCTP.
>
> Otherwise, we are basically forking GCTP and creating a new 
> distribution
> of it, and that would require us to maintain it and test its 
> integration
> with HDF-EOS5.

Indeed, I believe GCTP is not maintained anymore, and each project 
using it makes a few small adjustments. From the changelog, it seems 
GCTP was last changed March 1998.

If there's not much interest to include HDF-EOS right now, I could 
also maintain the libraries as a custom packages somewhere, for the 
few people who need them. I think one of the great things about Guix 
is that packages defined by users or third parties integrate so 
easily with the main repository.

best,

Thomas