Bug#679905: RFP: cctbx -- Computational Crystallography Toolbox

2021-10-06 Thread Jerome Kieffer
Hi Recently (last summer), Fred Picca told me he advanced quite a bit on this package and finally got something working. Using non standart packaging system is really a pain ... Cheers, Jérôme On Wed, 6 Oct 2021 14:28:06 +0200 Baptiste Carvello wrote: > Hi, > > thanks for caring about

Bug#679905: RFP: cctbx -- Computational Crystallography Toolbox

2021-10-06 Thread Ray
Hi all, Are they still using the SCons system to build it? It was a real hassle in the past. IIRC there were some issues remaining regarding the packaging and I have tried discussions with Upstream to resolve it back then. Unfortunately it did not lead anywhere. I have heard that the lack of

Bug#679905: RFP: cctbx -- Computational Crystallography Toolbox

2021-10-06 Thread Baptiste Carvello
Hi, thanks for caring about Debian packaging efforts! This one is an old one, it must have been 2012 or 2013, and salsa was called alioth :-) What I remember was a rather inflexible packaging system, that forced us to duplicate existing code. And an effort that, well, slowly lost steam. Then I

Bug#679905: RFP: cctbx -- Computational Crystallography Toolbox

2021-10-06 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I've got a hint about cctbx and realised that there is an RFP (degraded from ITP) as well as a salsa repository[1]. I took the freedom to inject the latest upstream source and updated *parts* of the packaging to recent standards. I have no idea whether this might give some new inspiration