[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Request for review & upload: nsf (ITP #766486)

[Stefan Sobernig]

Dear Debian Tcl/Tk'lers!

As announced quite some time ago, I prepared a new Debian package for 
review and upload (see ITP #766486). NSF/NX/XOTcl2 are the successors of 
XOTcl.

See https://next-scripting.org/.

The actual initial (non-beta) release of NSF/NX/XOTcl2 is planned for 
the next couple of days (before or on Oct 26th). To speed up the overall 
process, I prepared the source package "nsf" with a current SCM snapshot 
(2.0.0~b6) for review.

Once reviewed and fixed, switching to the then available release sources 
will be straight forward.

I used git-buildpackage (in a standard layout: debian/sid, upstream, 
pristine-tar). For the review, I published the source-package repo to

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/nsf.git/

The packages are lintian clean, I followed the Debian Tcl/Tk policy 
0.3.0, and tested the installation of the debs.

I kindly ask for your reviews and the promotion of the package.

That said, do you see any chance of landing before the Jessie deadline? 
I know, the ITP queues are extensive, but still, I was hoping naive as I 
am ;)

Best,
Stefan

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Bug#766486: ITP: nsf -- The Next Scripting Framework (for 
short: NSF) is an infrastructure for creating object-oriented scripting 
languages based on Tcl. See http://next-scripting.org/.
Resent-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 13:51:07 +0000
Resent-From: Stefan Sobernig <stefan.sobernig at wu.ac.at>
Resent-To: debian-bugs-dist at lists.debian.org
Resent-CC: stefan.sobernig at wu.ac.at, debian-devel at lists.debian.org, 
wnpp at debian.org
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 13:49:01 +0000
From: Stefan Sobernig <stefan.sobernig at wu.ac.at>
Reply-To: Stefan Sobernig <stefan.sobernig at wu.ac.at>, 766486 at bugs.debian.org
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Stefan Sobernig <stefan.sobernig at wu.ac.at>

* Package name    : nsf
   Version         : 2.0b6
   Upstream Author : Stefan Sobernig <stefan.sobernig at wu.ac.at>
* URL             : http://next-scripting.org/
* License         : MIT
   Programming Lang: C, Tcl
   Description     : The Next Scripting Framework (for short: NSF) is an 
infrastructure for creating object-oriented scripting languages based on 
Tcl. See http://next-scripting.org/.

The Next Scripting Framework (for short: NSF) is an infrastructure for
creating object-oriented scripting languages based on Tcl. This
package provides two ready-made object-orientated extensions for Tcl
based on NSF: Next Scripting Language (NX, pronounced "next") and
Extended Object Tcl version 2 (XOTcl2, pronounced "exotickle").

NSF and the two languages are direct successors of XOTcl
(http://www.xotcl.org/), which is actively maintained as a Debian
package (jointly with the Debian Tcl/Tk packaging team).

NSF/NX, NSF/XOTcl2 and applications written using them are deployed in
and along with production-grade software systems, such as Learn at WU
(http://learn.wu.ac.at/), OpenACS (http://openacs.org/), and
AOLServer/NaviServer.

I plan to maintain the NSF Debian package inside the Debian Tcl/Tk
packaging team. In this context, I am already responsible for two other
packages. See
https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=stefan.sobernig%40wu-wien.ac.at.