From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Danckaert Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add gctp Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 21:07:54 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <20160627.210754.1991645543107797665.post@thomasdanckaert.be> References: <20160618013926.GA1823@jasmine> <20160618.110540.2110350506362048689.thomas.danckaert@gmail.com> <20160625172131.GC21038@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60374) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bHbtD-0004mw-V8 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2016 15:08:12 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bHbt8-0001Ii-UV for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2016 15:08:11 -0400 Received: from s01-out.spamexperts.axc.nl ([159.253.0.252]:42454 helo=s01.spamexperts.axc.nl) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bHbt8-0001At-OH for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2016 15:08:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20160625172131.GC21038@jasmine> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: leo@famulari.name Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org From: Leo Famulari 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