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mhuhtala
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 Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2002 11:08 am Post subject: Ebuild request: Grace |
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Gentoo has a nice set of scientific apps; I was particlularly pleased to be able to get Gromacs and Babel through Portage. I think the plotting tool Grace (http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/) would be a nice addition. It is a mature project, the program is stable and has a lot of features. The ui is (unfortunately) built using motif, but it works well with lesstif. The license is GPL. I just installed Gentoo for the first time and I have not looked at writing ebuild scripts at all. It would be nice to have someone competent package Grace for Gentoo.
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nipplehead
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| Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2002 1:53 pm Post subject: already there. (: |
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your wish has been granted! 
| Code: | 100% peter@gonzo peter $ emerge -s grace
Searching...
[ Results for search key : grace ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* media-gfx/grace
Latest version available: 5.1.7-r2
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Homepage: http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/
Description: Grace is a WYSIWYG 2D plotting tool for the X Window System
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mhuhtala
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| Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2002 5:24 pm Post subject: Re: already there. (: |
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> your wish has been granted! :D
That was quick! Ah well, I know I am blind... just browsing around Portage I did not notice it. It still does not strike me as a 'media-gfx' package, but gnuplot is in that category, too, so I guess there is some sort of logic to this. Scigraphica does precisely the same sort of things (it's much bigger, though, can do 3d etc.) as Grace and sits in sci-apps? Because it has 'sci' in its name?
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klieber
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| Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2002 8:46 pm Post subject: Re: already there. (: |
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| mhuhtala wrote: | | It still does not strike me as a 'media-gfx' package, but gnuplot is in that category, too, so I guess there is some sort of logic to this. |
Not necessarily -- it may be an error. If you think it's incorrectly categorized, file a bug on it in bugs.gentoo.org explaining why you think sci-apps is a more appropriate location for it.
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red_over_blue
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2003 2:15 am Post subject: |
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Grace is a commonly used plotting app, yet it is still in version 5.1.7-r2 when 5.1.10 and now 5.1.12 have been released.
I can write some trivial ebuilds, but this one is beyond my abilities. I was thinking of filing a bug report that this should be updated, but I'm not sure if the GRP section is the one I want to post it in?
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Put bugs that are about improving our package selection for GRP sets here. Note that actual failures should not go here -- this is just for improving our list of packages, stuff like "please add foobar to GRP." Packages that dont exist in the portage tree yet do not fit in this category.
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Also, does that quote seem contradictory to anyone else besides me? It says I can post a bug asking for a package to be added to GRP, but only if it is already in portage? I obviously don't understand what GRP means, despite some googling and searching these forums. |
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dev
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2003 8:53 am Post subject: |
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| red_over_blue wrote: | | Grace is a commonly used plotting app, yet it is still in version 5.1.7-r2 when 5.1.10 and now 5.1.12 have been released. |
5.1.10 is in portage, has been since November. It's marked as unstable though. |
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red_over_blue
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2003 2:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | 5.1.10 is in portage, has been since November. It's marked as unstable though. |
Yes, I saw that, but why? Especially since this app is evolving, I would hope that portage would stay at least one version behind. I had also been looking at the ebuild scripts, and there is virtually no difference between the .7 and .10 ebuilds. I even renamed the ebuild .12 and it still emerged and compiled fine, but some the help features don't work. |
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dev
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2003 8:44 am Post subject: |
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| It's probably marked as unstable because it hasn't been used/tested enough. |
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