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But I've been quite busy at +</I>><i> working on various projects to be checked in as so as Cauldron opens +</I>><i> up. Most of them involve somewhat more than packaging since I've been +</I>><i> sending patches upstream +</I>><i> +</I>><i> The things that I've been working on are: +</I>><i> +</I>><i> 1) Cinnamon environment. I not only have a cinnamon environment +</I>><i> working on my local box, but I've also created a set of packages that +</I>><i> pull in all of the latest cinnamon themes, applets, and desklets. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> 2) Games: I'm tracking development for raceintospace, golly and +</I>><i> leocad. I've also got a local package of freeorion. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> 3) Astronomy/Visualization: I've created packages for the top +</I>><i> astronomy programs on sourceforge. These have either eye candy or are +</I>><i> professional tools or both. The things that I've packaged are +</I>><i> virtualmoonatlas, aladin, ds9 and a ton of astronomy related python +</I>><i> scripts. I've also worked on a drop in replacement for pgplot based +</I>><i> on plplot and a Pypi -> rpm script. I also have a local package of +</I>><i> elmerfem working. I was going to work on paraview, and there are some +</I>><i> install issues, and I'd like to work on ds9 first. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I also have mesa working so if anyone wants to simulate a star, let me +</I>><i> know. The problem with mesa is that theorists work mainly with +</I>><i> source, so I've been trying to figure out the best way of packaging +</I>><i> mesa to allow for tweaking. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> 4) opengl for ATI: I was working a while ago trying to get the open +</I>><i> source GPU/glamor drivers working on the newest AMD card, but that +</I>><i> doesn't seem that useful since AMD doesn't seem interesting in this. +</I>><i> There are some bits and pieces in my dev box that might be useful if +</I>><i> someone else is working on this. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I'm also interested in taking requests. If there is some game or +</I>><i> astronomy related package that you'd like to get packaged let me know. +</I>><i> One thing that I'm looking for is some open source wargame engine +</I>><i> (xconq is too old, lgeneral needs non-freeware files, and opengeneral +</I>><i> is closed source). I'm also looking at openbve train simulator +</I>><i> (getting old, and lots of mono changes needed) and rigsofrods +</I>><i> (installation from source is complex). On the astronomy front, I'd +</I>><i> like to get in IRAF but that's really hard to install. Also, I'm +</I>><i> interested in knowing what sort of telescope control tools and tools +</I>><i> amateurs are using. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> If I have a moment, I'll put up some screenshots with these packages +</I>><i> working on my cinnamon desktop. +</I>WOW, you are really working hard, thank you very much. +I know you said "game or astronomy related package", but I have +something else, we have no archiver with good GUI and full features (I +can't compress a folder with encryption in Ark), and there are great +open source apps that are waiting to be packaged: +FreeArc <A HREF="http://freearc.org/">http://freearc.org/</A> +this offers the best all around archiver I know, offers encryption and +top efficiency: +<A HREF="http://www.maximumcompression.com/data/summary_mf2.php#data">http://www.maximumcompression.com/data/summary_mf2.php#data</A> +also offers protection against damage of files (up to 20%) and other +interesting features. + +PeaZip <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/peazip">http://sourceforge.net/projects/peazip</A> +is great but it have issues with 74-bit Linux. +7-zip File Manager is also great but I think it is Windows only. +Hopefully you (or anybody interested) can bring these to Linux. +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="022044.html">[Mageia-dev] Status note +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="022047.html">[Mageia-dev] Status note +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#22046">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#22046">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#22046">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#22046">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |