<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:garamond,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: garamond,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Adding the Radiance compatibility path, directory, and links should be the default behavior and should ask the user if he/she would like NOT to install the compatibility path add-on...only if the system currently has a "genbox" and "rview" namespace conflict. That way the default configuration includes everything needed and only with user interaction could the installation fail to produce a working installation.<br><br>-Chas<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@bzed.de><br>To: code development <radiance-dev@radiance-online.org><br>Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2007 3:57:05 PM<br>Subject: Re: [Radiance-dev] Re:
Radiance in Debian<br><br>
Francesco Anselmo wrote:<br>>> This seems an acceptable solution to me -- having a second Radiance
<br>>> bin directory that people can include in their PATH to get
backwards- <br>>> compatibility. I have no problem with that. Does anyone else
object <br>>> before I implement the necessary changes?<br>> <br>> IMHO this is the best solution proposed so far, and perhaps the<br>> Debian post-install script could ask the user whether he wants to<br>> add the "compatibility" paths ...<br><br>No need for that, I can just drop it into the package, symlinks don't<br>take much space, so that's not a problem at all.<br><br><br>> About other wishes, it would be nice to add 3ds2mgf from the source<br>> package (it is in /ray/src/cv/mgflib), <br><br>I'll build that with the next upload. Seems it's not included in the<br>Rmakefile and I forgot about it. I think Greg could add this to the<br>programs which are build in that directory anyway.<br><br>> or external programmes like<br>> gendaylit
(<a href="http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/pub/generators/index.html" target="_blank">http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/pub/generators/index.html</a>).<br><br>If you convince the authors to put them under a free license, this is<br>not a problem at all. I've only looked at gendaylit, but it's license
it<br>not free according to the Debian Free Software Guidelines.<br><br> * Don't even think of selling this software to other people, or<br> * distributing it commercially, that is strict and explicit no.<br><br>Worst piece in there, didn't read the rest carefully.<br><br><br>Some days ago I was pointed to a lot of documentation which is shipped<br>with Learnix (if I remember right). It would probably be interesting to<br>ship that with Debian, too (if the License permits to do so). If the<br>Learnix people are reading here - I'd be happy if we could work<br>something out (if I don't get any reaction I'll find an email addy and<br>write directly).<br><br>An other interesting option would be to provide FAI<br>(<a href="http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/" target="_blank">http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/</a>) installers to install
Radiance<br>on clusters - if anybody has a use for this.<br><br><br>Also I'd like to announce the availability of Radiance in my blog -<br>which is on <a target="_blank" href="http://planet.debian.org">planet.debian.org</a> - as soon as the packaging seems to be<br>stable enough. If anybody knows a good summary about radiance, which
I'd<br>be allowed to share (with proper reference of course) - please point me<br>to it.<br><br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Bernd<br>-- <br>Bernd Zeimetz<br><<a ymailto="mailto:bernd@bzed.de" href="mailto:bernd@bzed.de">bernd@bzed.de</a>> <<a href="http://bzed.de/" target="_blank">http://bzed.de/</a>><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Radiance-dev mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Radiance-dev@radiance-online.org" href="mailto:Radiance-dev@radiance-online.org">Radiance-dev@radiance-online.org</a><br><a href="http://www.radiance-online.org/mailman/listinfo/radiance-dev" target="_blank">http://www.radiance-online.org/mailman/listinfo/radiance-dev</a><br></div><br></div></div></body></html>