On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am interested in a set of programs, the ‘BEDtools’, whose source includes a > convenience copy of the gzstream library. > > http://bedtools.googlecode.com > http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/compgeom/gzstream/ > > A quick apt-file search indicates that at least two other packages (CCed) may > be using the gzstream library, k3d and freecad. So it seems that it would > make sense to package the gzstream library separately. > > But I notice that this library has not been updated since 2003, and obviously, > if only two programs in Debian are using it, there may be a more suitable > alternative, that would be worth suggesting to the authors of BEDtools. > > Does anybody has a good recommendation to replace gzstream by something more > “mainstream” without too much work? If not, are there volunteers to > co-maintain > gzstream in Debian (it looks simple, but since I am not a C programmer, I am > not comfortable with library packaging).
GDCM is using zipstream. http://www.codeproject.com/KB/stl/zipstream.aspx I do not remember why I gave up on gzstream (license issue ?). I cannot volunteer -at the moment-, but I can help with C programming issues. HTH -- Mathieu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktikoblrz71jnxdcfudj3edcqpj48ikzmg_bps...@mail.gmail.com
