[Pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers] question on how to include extra sources

[Rudi Cilibrasi]

On 7/28/06, Paul van Tilburg <paulvt at debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 05:02:09PM +0200, Rudi Cilibrasi wrote:
> > I am just getting ready to move my debian/ dirs for libcomplearn-ruby
> > into our repos.  I am concerned about one issue though:
> > libcomplearn-ruby will not build without libcomplearn
> > installed.   And libcomplearn will not build without libcsoap.  I
> > guess libcsoap and libcomplearn  should not be brought into our ruby
...
> We'll have to make sure these two libraries get into the Debian
> repostory first.
Good, I was hoping to do it in that order also.

> So, you need to find a sponsor for these two package.
> This can be one of us in the sense that these libs are required for the
> binding.  I was wondering:  are the bindings the main thing and is the
> main app written in Ruby or are the bindings just a side-effect, an
> extra?

An early version (0.55 or so) of complearn was in Ruby+C mixed badly,
but the current version is written in pure C.  The Ruby binding is
meant to be seperate.  The main lib is supposed  to not depend on Ruby
for maximum acceptance into the scientific community.   I would say
the main thing is libcomplearn right now, but eventually I expect the
Ruby binding to grow as the interface gets evolved and hopefully it
will be more popular.  I think the situation is substantially similar
in libgsl and indeed I already have some compatibility features and
strong dependency with this library; notably the C and Ruby gsl_matrix
types.

In terms of package dependencies, the first ones for me must be
libcsoap and libsvm.  Then the next stage libcomplearn.  Then
libsvm-ruby, complearn-gui, complearn-mpi, and libcomplearn-ruby.

I'll need some direction on how to get the packages sponsored; I guess
this will depend on how the packages 'check out' later this weekend.
I look forward to comments from all.

Cheers,

Rudi

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