[Radiance-dev] Re: Radiance in Debian

[Charles Ehrlich]

Adding the Radiance compatibility path, directory, and links should be the default behavior and should ask the user if he/she would like NOT to install the compatibility path add-on...only if the system currently has a "genbox" and "rview" namespace conflict.  That way the default configuration includes everything needed and only with user interaction could the installation fail to produce a working installation.

-Chas

----- Original Message ----
From: Bernd Zeimetz <bernd at bzed.de>
To: code development <radiance-dev at radiance-online.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2007 3:57:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Radiance-dev] Re: Radiance in Debian


Francesco Anselmo wrote:
>> This seems an acceptable solution to me -- having a second Radiance
  
>> bin directory that people can include in their PATH to get
 backwards- 
>> compatibility.  I have no problem with that.  Does anyone else
 object  
>> before I implement the necessary changes?
> 
> IMHO this is the best solution proposed so far, and perhaps the
> Debian post-install script could ask the user whether he wants to
> add the "compatibility" paths ...

No need for that, I can just drop it into the package, symlinks don't
take much space, so that's not a problem at all.


> About other wishes, it would be nice to add 3ds2mgf from the source
> package (it is in /ray/src/cv/mgflib), 

I'll build that with the next upload. Seems it's not included in the
Rmakefile and I forgot about it. I think Greg could add this to the
programs which are build in that directory anyway.

> or external programmes like
> gendaylit
 (http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/pub/generators/index.html).

If you convince the authors to put them under a free license, this is
not a problem at all. I've only looked at gendaylit, but it's license
 it
not free according to the Debian Free Software Guidelines.

 * Don't even think of selling this software to other people, or
 * distributing it commercially, that is strict and explicit no.

Worst piece in there, didn't read the rest carefully.


Some days ago I was pointed to a lot of documentation which is shipped
with Learnix (if I remember right). It would probably be interesting to
ship that with Debian, too (if the License permits to do so). If the
Learnix people are reading here - I'd be happy if we could work
something out (if I don't get any reaction I'll find an email addy and
write directly).

An other interesting option would be to provide FAI
(http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/) installers to install
 Radiance
on clusters - if anybody has a use for this.


Also I'd like to announce the availability of Radiance in my blog -
which is on planet.debian.org - as soon as the packaging seems to be
stable enough. If anybody knows a good summary about radiance, which
 I'd
be allowed to share (with proper reference of course) - please point me
to it.


Best regards,

Bernd
-- 
Bernd Zeimetz
<bernd at bzed.de>                         <http://bzed.de/>

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