[Gmsh] fedora packaging and gmsh/contrib sources

[Christophe Geuzaine]

On 22 Oct 2012, at 14:50, Andre Massing <andre.massing at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Dear Gmsh developer
> 
> We are very interested in packaging Gmsh for Fedora (and for its
> relatives, enterprise linux based distros) and making
> Gmsh easier accessible for a broader audience.
> 

Dear Andre,

That would be great!

> Since the Fedora packaging policy only allows to bundle 3rd party
> libraries in exceptional cases, we would like to ask you a few
> questions about the use and the origin of the sources resided in the
> gmsh/contrib folder:
> 	
> - -HighOrderMeshOptimizer
> 
> Is this an official, separate module of gmsh and if so, it is licensed
> under the same license as gmsh? If the sources originate from other
> 3rd party code, could you point out where the original sources can be
> obtained and whether they have been modified in the gmsh sources?
> 

This is currently under heavy development; the final license has not be chosen yet.

> - -lbfgs from the ALGLIB project - http://www.alglib.net/
> Are the sources in gmsh modified or could the original sources be used
> in principal?

Yes, it's the same code.

> 
> - - mmg3d,  MMG3D from
> http://www.math.u-bordeaux1.fr/~cdobrzyn/logiciels/mmg3d.php
> 

Same code, with a few patches to make it compile on Windows/Mac.

> Are the sources in gmsh modified or could the original sources be used?
> 
> - - Salome
> Are the sources in gmsh modified or could the original sources be used?
> 

Same code, with a few patches to make it compile with recent versions of open cascade (patches might have made their way into the original code, too).

Cheers,

Christophe

> We would really appreciate if you could help us with clarifying the
> use and origin of these sources in order to make a decision whether
> bundling might be acceptible or a packaging of some of the original
> sources might be a more adequate solution.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Andre Massing and Alexey Vasyukov
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