[Gmsh] fedora packaging and gmsh/contrib sources

[Christophe Geuzaine]

On 29 Oct 2012, at 09:39, Andre Massing <andre.massing at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Dear Christophe,
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> thank you very much for providing us with the relevant information!
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> On 10/26/2012 09:31 AM, Christophe Geuzaine wrote:
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>> 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.
> 
> Ok, I guess it then has to be - at least temporarily - removed from a
> fedora package, as long as the license has not be chosen.
> 
>> 
>> -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).
> 
> OK, great, we then can/must package these ones separately. The
> Windows/Mac patches are not really that relevant for Fedora :) and the
> open cascade libs are in a non-free repo which probably means that
> gmsh will be built without linking against the open cascade
> libraries. By the way, does that mean a severe reduction in the
> functionality of gmsh?
> 

Yes: not linking with opencascade means that Gmsh will not be able to import CAD models in STEP, IGES or BRep formats.



> Thanks for your help!
> 
> Best,
> Andre
> 
>> 
>>> 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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