[Mageia-dev] Status note

Sat Jan 26 09:55:29 CET 2013

On 01/26/2013 08:58 AM, Joseph Wang wrote:
+> I've been avoiding checking anything into the tree so as not to
+> interfere with the Mageia 3 release.  But I've been quite busy at
+> working on various projects to be checked in as so as Cauldron opens
+> up.  Most of them involve somewhat more than packaging since I've been
+> sending patches upstream
+>
+> The things that I've been working on are:
+>
+> 1) Cinnamon environment.  I not only have a cinnamon environment
+> working on my local box, but I've also created a set of packages that
+> pull in all of the latest cinnamon themes, applets, and desklets.
+>
+> 2) Games: I'm tracking development for raceintospace, golly and
+> leocad.  I've also got a local package of freeorion.
+>
+> 3) Astronomy/Visualization: I've created packages for the top
+> astronomy programs on sourceforge.  These have either eye candy or are
+> professional tools or both.  The things that I've packaged are
+> virtualmoonatlas, aladin, ds9 and a ton of astronomy related python
+> scripts.  I've also worked on a drop in replacement for pgplot based
+> on plplot and a Pypi -> rpm script.  I also have a local package of
+> elmerfem working.  I was going to work on paraview, and there are some
+> install issues, and I'd like to work on ds9 first.
+>
+> I also have mesa working so if anyone wants to simulate a star, let me
+> know.  The problem with mesa is that theorists work mainly with
+> source, so I've been trying to figure out the best way of packaging
+> mesa to allow for tweaking.
+>
+> 4) opengl for ATI: I was working a while ago trying to get the open
+> source GPU/glamor drivers working on the newest AMD card, but that
+> doesn't seem that useful since AMD doesn't seem interesting in this.
+> There are some bits and pieces in my dev box that might be useful if
+> someone else is working on this.
+>
+> I'm also interested in taking requests.  If there is some game or
+> astronomy related package that you'd like to get packaged let me know.
+>   One thing that I'm looking for is some open source wargame engine
+> (xconq is too old, lgeneral needs non-freeware files, and opengeneral
+> is closed source).  I'm also looking at openbve train simulator
+> (getting old, and lots of mono changes needed) and rigsofrods
+> (installation from source is complex).  On the astronomy front, I'd
+> like to get in IRAF but that's really hard to install.  Also, I'm
+> interested in knowing what sort of telescope control tools and tools
+> amateurs are using.
+>
+> If I have a moment, I'll put up some screenshots with these packages
+> working on my cinnamon desktop.
+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        http://freearc.org/
+this offers the best all around archiver I know, offers encryption and 
+top efficiency:
+http://www.maximumcompression.com/data/summary_mf2.php#data
+also offers protection against damage of files (up to 20%) and other 
+interesting features.
+
+PeaZip http://sourceforge.net/projects/peazip
+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.
+