BOINC MilkyWay ... can we do something about it?

[Guo Yixuan]

On 10/02/2012 03:19 AM, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> I don't think I'm ready for this task, but I can help of course...
> 
> BTW I cannot find any reference of the source code online.. according
> to debian/watch ->
> http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/download/code_release there seems
> to be a 0.19 out, but the sources are a little mess, I cannot find
> anywhere a source tarball of the code, neither a trac system or
> something else similar...
> 
> I wish to help but I cannot get the desired informations, does
> anybody else have better hints? The second thing is that I don't know
> if I'll be able to update it to boinc 7 and I don't know where the
> "boinc-app-milkyway git" is on alioth...


I think it's on github now[1], but without links on its official site.
However I'm not having enough time to package it. It's using cmake now,
and contain 2 apps: separation and nbody. I've compiled once, and that
doesn't seem to be difficult.

[1] https://github.com/Milkyway-at-home/milkywayathome_client

Cheers,

Guo Yixuan

>> ________________________________ Da: ""Steffen Möller""
>> <steffen_moeller at gmx.de> A: pkg-boinc-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
>>  Inviato: Lunedì 1 Ottobre 2012 20:34 Oggetto: BOINC MilkyWay ...
>> can we do something about it?
>> 
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> I just contacted Thibaut about it. He does not find the time to
>> update boinc-app-milkyway to version 7 of our boinc clients. And I
>> could well imagine that there is somewhere a newer version of the
>> upstream code, too.
>> 
>> Is anybody on this list volunteering for some maintenance on it?
>> I'd otherwise ask him to orphan the package.
>> 
>> Many greetings
>> 
>> Steffen
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