[Debichem-devel] Jmol: Seeking new maintainer or considering removal

[Emmanuel Bourg]

What are the missing dependencies for Jmol 13?

Emmanuel Bourg


Le 07/03/2014 19:37, Michael Banck a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 07:10:44PM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote:
>> Jmol is a nice and useful 3D chemical structures viewer application,
>> which is written in Java. It can be run as a standalone application
>> and it also ships an interactive web browser applet and a Java
>> development tollkit.
>>
>> Since some time the Jmol package is lacking behind the latest upstream
>> releases. Current version in Debian is 12.X whereas upstream already
>> reached 14.X. With the release of the 13.X series, Jmol added some
>> more external libraries, which it uses and ships. So to get the latest
>> Jmol release into Debian/main a maintainer is required, who is willing
>> to maintain Jmol along with its dependencies. This requires some basic
>> Java knowledge. Also note, that the upstream build system (the last
>> time I checked) usually puts all classes - Jmol and its dependencies -
>> into one JAR file, so you usually have to hack the build system too.
>>
>> If nobody steps up, I'm going to request its removal from Debian, as
>> it seems unuseful to me, to ship an outdated piece of software.
> 
> If somebody wants to step up to help, be my guest.  Note that I believe
> there is/will be a Javascript version of Jmol at one point, which might
> make some thing easier, not sure.
> 
> In any case, I plan to update it in time for the jessie freeze at least,
> but I currently don't have a lot of time to dedicate to it.
> 
> 
> Michael