[Showme-devel] Julia for ARM

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Graham Inggs (2015-09-02 13:44:57)
> On 2 September 2015 at 13:14, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>> Please file a bugreport against julia package, to establish a public
>> dialogue with the package maintainers about our needs and your findings.
>
> Do you mean a wishlist bug requesting an ARM build?

Yes.  Or perhaps rather an important bug requesting build on any arch: 
It is wrong¹, I believe, for a package to suppress build on uncommon 
architectures without concrete reasons (e.g. ipossible without ALSA 
which is inherently - the "L" in the name - Linux-only).

Even packages that constantly fail their testsuite on some archs should 
still continue to do so: Maintainers of build daemons may choose to 
blacklist a package to save ressources.


>> If source package pcre3¹ is unusable (considering also if patching 
>> Julia to fit might be sensible)
>
> Unfortunately, pcre3 is not suitable.  It is the 3rd ABI of PCRE, and 
> PCRE2 is actually newer and has a different API.

Ah, I understand.


> It may be possible to patch Julia by reverting the commit where the 
> upgrade from PCRE to PCRE2 happened [1].

Yeah, interesting that you try that route to get Julia in working shape 
fast - until PCRE2 is packaged and become reliable.


>> - then please file a bugreport against psudo-package wnpp (work 
>> needed pending progress) of type ITP or RFP (depending on whether you 
>> intend to package it yourself or request for others to package it.
>
> Any suggestions as to what the source package for PCRE2 should be 
> named, given that we had pcre2, which was the 2nd ABI of PCRE, in 
> Debian a long time ago?

Source package (and name for bugreport): pcre2

Binary packages: libpcre2-6 and libpcre2-6-dev (replace "6" with API)


>> NB! It seems that Julia is only an optional component of Beaker.  If 
>> equally fine for you to work on then getting Beaker dependencies for 
>> R apackaged for Debian, and figuring out why loading the R module 
>> still fails even if seemingly all dependencies are satisfied, might 
>> make better sense to work on first.  But getting Julia in shape is 
>> sure good too.
>
> Noted.  Julia was a nice place for me to start as I personally know 
> people at UCT who are using it who could assist with testing.  I have 
> no experience with R.

Ah, makes good snse, then :-)


 - Jonas


¹ Arguably an instance of "we won't hide problems" that all Debian 
members have signed into.

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