I'm considering having saods9 removed. The FTBFS bugs aren't a problem; the original one is fixed upstream, in 4.0b7, and the others are easy to fix by adding lines like "class matrix;".
Also, I can either link against tcl8.3 (after applying a patch) or statically link against a specially-compiled tcl8.4 to solve the reported crash on "Horizontal cut graph". But, ./saods9/sla/ contains obscured C code. slalib is written by Patrick Wallace, and a Fortran copy is distributed under the GPL by Starlink. A proprietary C copy is commercially available from Wallace. ./sla/ is an obscured C copy, with a GPL header. I'm not sure whether the GPL header was added by Wallace or by Bill Joye upstream, but it doesn't really matter WRT to the DFSG. Bill Joye just got back to me after conversation with Pat Wallace, Doug Mink, and John Roll. I guess the v4 release isn't planned to fix this problem, so its apparently up to me to fix. I'm going to fool around with the GPL fortran implementation, and see if I can come up with anything useful. First, I'll have to reread about C, Fortran, and f2c calling conventions. I've filed an RC removal bug, against saods9 only, and given myself a deadline of 2006-01-01 to have a new package uploaded, otherwise I will give up. FYI, the upstream websever hea-www.harvard.edu has been down for a few days now (again). Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
