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Re: ITP: graphviz


On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Vlad wrote:

> Greetings,
>
>   I appologize for the previous email with the wrong subject.
>
>  It seems that package has been proposed couple of years ago,  and was
> rejected due to licence problems.
>  Here is the link :
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-09/msg00348.html
>
> However several things happend since then.  First the AT&T labs at cambrige is
> no more,   and the graphviz  package is now developed by the  graphviz.org.
> Consequently the licence has changed from  some weird  proprietary AT&T code
> agreement,  to standard CPL licence which is an OSD approved licence.
>
> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cpl1.0.php
> http://www.graphviz.org/License.php
>
>  Official word from the developers is that the package doesn't come
> compile right out of the box, but various people have reported success
> in doing so after some tweaking.  So if this package is approved I will
> attempt to track down all the missing dependencies and create a patch
> for this package to be build under cygwin.

I recall minimal tweaking in building this package.  If you're interested,
I can try to dig up the patch I used (for an older version, I suppose).

>   My primary goal is to buiild the dot program which is used by the
> doxygen package to generate the source documentation.  I will do my best
> to get the other parts working as well.
>
>   My plan is to use as much shared libraries ( libgd , libfreetype ) as
> practical, and link the missing libraries statically.

Sounds good.  I was going to vote for it, but it's apparently part of
Debian stable, so no need.  I'll be glad to review it once you have the
actual package, though.
	Igor
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