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

[Kurt Kremitzki]

Hello Francesco,

On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 19:38:27 +0100 Francesco Poli
<invernomuto at paranoici.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Oct 2016 18:17:29 +0200 Francesco Poli wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 19:23:38 +0200 Francesco Poli wrote:
> > 
> > > 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.
> > > > 
> > [...]
> > > > 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!
> > 
> > Ping?
> 
> Second ping?
> 
> 
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I have been working on improving the maintenance status of the Gmsh
package. I just wanted to respond to this bug and state that I find your
reasoning sound and would like to implement it, although I can't commit
to a timeline; my current priority is to get Gmsh 4 uploaded as I
already have a working package on the FreeCAD Community Extras PPA [1].

[1] https://launchpad.net/~freecad-community/+archive/ubuntu/ppa