Hi,
I contacted VisIt's upstream (via visit-users list) and found the same
thing; they are
correcting the build notes that claim Silo is needed.
I hadn't tested it without Silo. I'm trying to build it now, but Visit
1.12.0 needs
VTK 5.0.0c : I tested against vtk 5.2 which is in Debian, and they're
incompatible;
LLNL ship a VTK 5.0.0.c (with changes) tarball to build VisIt with; it
doesn't build
on Debian, so back to working on the necessary fixes for visit 1.12.0
with Debian's VTK.
(Some of these may be in the repo for visit ; they are currently
working on visit 2.0
upstream, but I'm not sure it would be ready for Squeeze).
I need to resign up to ITP visit.
Regards
Alastair
On 7 Nov 2009, at 19:10, Francesco Poli wrote:
On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:34:31 +0100 Francesco Poli wrote:
[...]
On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:20:57 +0100 Alastair McKinstry wrote:
[...]
I've been looking at packaging SILO, a mandatory dependency of
VisIt.
[...]
This seems to be very awkward: a Free Software application (VisIt)
which links with a non-free library (Silo) by the same authors!
:-(
AFAIK, this is a show-stopper for packaging VisIT. We could write
to
LLNL and see if they
are willing to relinquish this,
I think this should definitely be done.
I got in touch with Silo's upstream.
They quickly replied in an encouraging manner.
First thing they told me is that Silo is no longer a mandatory
dependency for VisIt: they say it's been an *optional* dependency for
quite some time.
Alastair, did you try building VisIt without enabling the Silo plugin?
I think VisIt could be packaged for Debian (main) with the Silo plugin
disabled, while we wait for upstream to re-license Silo in a DFSG-free
manner...
Does it sound feasible?
but since I started this ITP, Paraview has been packaged for
Debian, and it does my visualisation needs, so I am no longer
packaging visit.
Sorry about this,
Alastair, does the above pieces of news change anything with respect
to
your willingness to package VisIt?
Please let me know: thanks in advance.
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