[Pkg-julia-devel] Julia entered Debian!

[Viral Shah]

I have updated openlibm to address the build failures. Hoping that we find
more interesting failures next. :-)

-viral
On Dec 12, 2012 2:33 PM, "Jeff Bezanson" <jeff.bezanson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Sebastien,
>
> Let me reiterate Viral's thanks for your work.
>
> This may be the first time arm or powerpc builds have even been
> attempted, so I would definitely not expect them to work. These may
> take significant effort on our part, particularly for the big endian
> case. I'm willing to do it, but at some point I may need to connect to
> a machine with the relevant hardware.
>
> It's certainly a goal to have an official versioned release by
> February, and this will only provide extra motivation.
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Sébastien Villemot
> <sebastien at debian.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Le mardi 11 décembre 2012 à 13:47 +0530, Viral Shah a écrit :
> >
> >> We should certainly do a new version, perhaps try to do once a month,
> >> until v0.1 is released. Let's try to aim for and fix the build issues
> >> on arm and powerpc, if possible before you make the next upload. Could
> >> you file these as issues on github?
> >
> > A monthly upload seems a good rhythm. When I investigate the arm and
> > powerpc issues, I’ll file issues on github
> >
> >> Are you planning to create debian packages for julia packages in the
> >> near future? We need to strike the right balance for apt installed
> >> packages, and julia's Pkg installed packages.
> >
> > Not in the short term, because I have other priorities (helping with the
> > Debian Wheezy release, improving the Julia core package), and also
> > because the pkg system is not yet ready for system-wide installation
> > (issue #1692).
> >
> > But in the medium term I definitely hope that we will find a consensus
> > for the best way of incorporating Julia packages into GNU/Linux distros,
> > so that this work can start in Debian.
> >
> >> Are there any debian/ubuntu deadlines that we should keep in mind when
> >> planning a julia release?
> >
> > Concerning Debian, the next deadline is far away. We are finishing the
> > release cycle of Wheezy, and Julia will not be part of that release
> > because it missed the deadline (June 30). The deadline for the Jessie
> > release should be somewhere in mid-2014, so there is plenty of time.
> >
> > Concerning Ubuntu, the next release (Raring Ringtail) is expected in
> > April 2013. The automatic import from Debian will stop on Feb 14, 2013.
> > So basically whatever Julia package is in Debian unstable by that date
> > will be part of Ubuntu Raring. We should therefore plan a little in
> > advance to decide which commit version to upload in Debian for that
> > deadline (unless of course 0.1 is out!).
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > --
> >  .''`.    Sébastien Villemot
> > : :' :    Debian Developer
> > `. `'     http://www.dynare.org/sebastien
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> >
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