Re: [gentoo-user] Packaging ASL

[Zeev Pekar]

On Tue, 2015-07-21 at 07:18 -0600, Jc García wrote:
> 2015-07-21 5:41 GMT-06:00 Zeev Pekar <zeev.pekar@××××××××××××××××.com>:
> > Dear Gentoo Developers,
> >
> > We have just released the version 0.1.4 of ASL - Advanced Simulation
> > Library <http://asl.org.il>.
> >
> > May I ask somebody to volunteer to package it for Gentoo?
> >
> > Packaging efforts for other distros are underway and probably can be
> > helpful for Gentoo [1].
>
> Really interesting library, but I doubt you will get what you expect
> in this list, neither in the -dev list because as it is a library and
> AFAIK there's no applications requiring it, I doubt they'll want to
> add it to the main repository, but sure there's a place in gentoo for
> the library, the gentoo-science project[1], you can try create a
> github issue[2] requesting the add of the library there. You could
> also find more folks interested in it, this list I would say is mostly
> sysadmin/troubled-user stuff. If I find time I might try to make the
> ebuild and send pull request to the science repo, but I haven't
> learned much about CMake, so I would have to learn a bit more about it
> first.
>
> Regards, and thank you for the spread of such Important type software
> in a FOSS way.
>
> [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Science
> [2] https://github.com/gentoo-science/sci (If you check the commits
> log you'll see that it is a very alive repo)

I don't think CMake should be an issue, check our Quick Start guide:

http://asl.org.il/documentation/

I also opened an issue, which might serve as central point to coordinate
packaging efforts:

https://github.com/gentoo-science/sci/issues/452

Thank you!
Zeev