[Bug 518949] Review Request: brlcad - computer aided solid modelling and design

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--- Comment #7 from matt chan <talcite at gmail.com>  2009-10-06 10:32:19 EDT ---
Ack. I'm sorry, I don't know how, but I missed the email about Kevin's comment.
I guess there's a downside to too many bugzilla emails.

I will have some time to work on this in the weekend to fix the license and
rpmlint errors. I thought they were only trivial ones, but I didn't test the
most recent changes. 

The libraries are somewhat of a sticky issue.

I consulted with the BRL-CAD devs on the possibility of abstracting out the
libraries while building this package. It appears that they have made heavy 3rd
party modifications to most of these libraries, especially Utah, Template
Numerical, openNURBS, and NIST STEP, and the upstream projects are unwilling to
accept them or are no longer active. TkHTML is a dead project as far as I know.
None of those libraries listed should be present in fedora 11. 

Is it still considered a good idea to abstract out the libraries, or should we
just consider them a part of the BRL-CAD package? According to the BRL-CAD
devs, they don't really resemble the original libraries/projects anymore. To my
knowledge, there is no project outside of BRL-CAD that makes use of their
modifications to these libs.

Thoughts?

Matt

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