State of Salomé

[Andre Espaze]

Hello Adam,

> The Debian Salomé package is good, and keeps improving.  But I don't
> want to upload -11 until there's a fix for at least the RC bug, if not
> two other runtime bugs, and I need some help.
> 
> The RC bug 595281 is FTBFS with three different errors on Alpha, IA64
> and Sparc.  It looks like there may be a problem with IDL compiling of
> GEOM_Gen.idl as all of the errors are in its generated source files.
Whitout being developper, is it possible for me to access such platforms
with a normal user account? Or should I try to work with a Debian
developper? Or may you have another advice for trying the compilation
on Aplha, IA64 and Sparc?
> 
> The runtime bugs are 596957/596959 (identical and merged) and 597885,
> one is a GEOM module segfault, the other looks like a CORBA problem
> during Salomé initialization by runSalome.  I don't see either of these
> problems, so I'm tempted to tag them "unreproducible".
> 
> A third relatively minor bug is 597739: salomeloader doesn't work
> because of a simple-looking python issue of some kind, someone who knows
> a little python should be able to fix it in 5 minutes.
> 
> I'm a bit over my head with all of these, and don't know where to start.
> Can someone help at least with 595281, so we can upload and have a shot
> at releasing with squeeze?
I will try to investigate the remaining bugs tomorrow.
> 
> In other news, André has ported nearly all of our patches to the latest
> upstream, and will send them in soon.  If all goes well, 5.1.5 (or
> whatever the next upstream release number is) will have many of our
> patches included, and packaging future releases will be *much* easier.
> Thanks André!
You are very welcome! I was pleased to bring a minor contribution to
the difficult task of Salome packaging. Thank you very much for leading
such project. By the way, do you think that I can send the report and
patches by the end of the week? Or would you prefer to have more time for
a deeper review? Then from this Thursday, I am going to be unavailable
until the 12th of October.

Best regards,

André