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Gentoo science team, |
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I've just finished extending the hdf-java ebuild from the science |
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overlay to optionally compile and install hdfview [1]. The resulting |
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ebuild is in my `wtk` overlay [2] if people want to test it out. I'm |
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posting this here in the hopes that the science team will pull my |
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changes into the science overlay. You get a working ebuild, and I |
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don't have to worry about maintenance ;). |
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I have very little experience with Java and Java packaging, so I'm |
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sure there are things that could have been done more cleanly; please |
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send along any suggestions. The main difficulty was working around |
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upstream dependency bundling, which I took a fair stab at. With the |
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hdfview USE flag, hdf-java now pulls in my new or updated packages for |
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dev-java/fits, dev-java/netcdf, dev-java/joda-time, and |
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dev-java/joda-convert. There are still a number of other libraries |
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bundled in netcdf that should get pulled out into explicit |
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dependencies, but I was running out of time to work on HDFView. |
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Anyhow, hopefully there's something in here that's worth moving from |
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my quasi-personal overlay into the more official `science` overlay. |
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I'm not sure what the best way of submitting the changes is. I can |
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attach ebuilds, patchfiles, etc. in a message to the list, or I can |
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branch the science overlay's Git repo. For now I've just left |
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everything in my `wtk` repo, since that's easy enough to pull via |
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layman. |
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Thanks, |
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Trevor |
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[1]: http://www.hdfgroup.org/hdf-java-html/hdfview/ |
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[2]: http://physics.drexel.edu/~wking/unfolding-disasters/posts/Gentoo_overlay/ |
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