Bug#740894: gmsh: please make tetgen an optional feature for gmsh

[Francesco Poli]

On Wed, 05 Mar 2014 23:44:24 +0100 Francesco Poli (wintermute) wrote:

[...]
> Since I think the GNU AfferoGPL v3 is non-free, I would like to kindly
> ask you to make tetgen support in gmsh an optional feature, so that
> libtet1.5 may be downgraded from the Depends to the Recommends control
> field.
> 
> In other words, I hope that there will again be the possibility to install
> and use the gmsh Debian package *without* installing the tetgen or libtet1.5
> Debian package and *without* unpacking AfferoGPL-licensed files onto the
> system. That is to say, no strong dependencies on libtet1.5 or inclusion
> of tetgen files into the gmsh package, please!
> 
> I really hope this can be done.
> Thanks for your time and patience.

Hello,
is there any progress on this issue?

Is what I ask feasible?
Has my feature request been forwarded upstream?

Please let me know, thanks for your time!


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