[Bug 211626] Review Request: xtide - Calculate tide all over the world

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Summary: Review Request: xtide - Calculate tide all over the world


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211626





------- Additional Comments From pertusus at free.fr  2006-11-13 07:36 EST -------
(In reply to comment #79)

> Patrice and Michael, what do you think of this?

First I'd like to thank David for joining to this ticket.

I am not sure that the argument about 1% users is a show
stopper for inclusion in extras. As strange as it may look,
having 1 fedora user use a program may be a sufficient reason 
to include it in extras. Indeed if this user really want to 
have a rpm to ease system management he will rebuild it 
locally anyway. But then if he rebuilds it locally, building it
in extras isn't much additional work and then you get 'for free'
easy reinstallation with yum install, interesting in case you move
to another location or have to reinstall your computer, rebuild on 
all extras supported arches - interesting in case you buy a new 
computer, and more visibility for others to help you fix your 
package. And then if you have 2 users it becomes very interesting
since it avoids double work on creating and rebuilding local rpms.
Others may have different opinions, but even for packages I may 
be the only one to use in fedora (or even on earth) I prefer to
have it in extras for the ease of system management it brings with.

Anyway I don't think that build_tide_db, restore_tide_db should be
shipped with libtcd anymore, as, if I understand well they aren't of
much use now. However I still think that tideEditor may be usefull and
is worth packaging.

My current thoughts are that:
* the issue of inter-dependencies is in fact moot, we want to use the
  tcd shipped by David, and since we cannot package it in fedora due to
  licensing the way things are done to help the user get it are right.
* If David don't want to bring tideEditor in with Xtide, resplit
  tcd-utils .src.rpm and submit it separately.
* split the main package the way you like, as I still think that most
  of what I said at the end of #Comment 75 is relevant. At least
  split off libtcd and libtcd-devel which would contain only the libtcd
  library and devel package. For xttpd/common package do what you prefer.
* follow David decision regarding shared libraries.

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