wow... there are a lot of rules there... Considering my zero-experience with Arch and the fear to break some of those rules may I ask somebody from the community to submit ASL to AUR for further consideration? Thank you very much in advance, Zeev On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 13:47 +0200, Øyvind Heggstad wrote:

On Mon, 08 Jun 2015 14:08:20 +0300 Zeev Pekar <zeev.pekar@avtechscientific.com> wrote:

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Dear Archlinux developer community,

we would like to announce the recent open-source release of our GPU-enabled multiphysics software - Advanced Simulation Library. http://asl.org.il/

Here are some remarkable benchmarks: http://asl.org.il/benchmarks/multicomponent_flow/

If possible, please create an Archlinux package for ASL and send me an URL where we could make our contributions to the packaging efforts.

Thank you, Zeev

ps: Please, "like" us on Facebook, if you find ASL cool: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Avtech-Scientific/828973737156105

I suggest that you simply add it to aur[1] yourself.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository

On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 13:47:21 +0200, Øyvind Heggstad wrote:

I suggest that you simply add it to aur[1] yourself.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository

From the above mentioned link: "The AUR community has the ability to vote for or against packages in the AUR. If a package becomes popular enough — provided it has a compatible license and good packaging technique — it may be entered into the community repository (directly accessible by pacman or abs)." Also consider to read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Official_repositories#community : "community This repository can be found in .../community/os/ on your favorite mirror. community contains packages that have been adopted by Trusted Users from the Arch User Repository. Some of these packages may eventually make the transition to the core or extra repositories as the developers consider them crucial to the distribution." The AUR mailing list: https://lists.archlinux.org//listinfo/aur-general

Hello Andrejs and the Arch community! we have updated all our dependencies(among them VTK to 6.1): http://asl.org.il/2015/06/09/ASL-0.1.2_released/ Now we look for volunteers to add ASL package for Arch - please, send us a link, so we can follow the process and make contributions. Thank you in advance! Zeev ps: we still need 17 more "Likes" on Facebook to get a proper URL... https://www.facebook.com/pages/Avtech-Scientific/828973737156105 On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 15:14 +0300, Andrejs Mivreņiks wrote:

Hello!

It looks like an interesting tool, thank you for licensing it under a free license.

Although it looks like your software requires VTK version 5.8[1] which is an outdated version of the VTK library/system. Currently only 6.1.0 version is available from official repositories[2]. Even though it is possible to create a package for AUR with legacy VTK version as dependency, it will not be likely that your software is going to be added to the official repository as well as making it much longer to build.

Please update your software to use the most recent version of VTK.

Regards

[1] https://github.com/AvtechScientific/ASL/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt#L30 [2] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=vtk

Zeev, you should take a look at some PKGBUILDs, they're really simple and easy to make. E.g. go to Source Files link here: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/snd/

Hello, Zeev! Good to hear that, I'll be glad to help. I already wrote a PKGBUILD, though I encountered some syntax error. I'll report it back to the GitHub issue tracker soon. We can discuss things personally by e-mail if needed from now on. Regards, Andrejs -- Andrejs Mivreņiks PGP Key Fingerprint: 3872 5DEB BCA5 9460 09B2 E867 F34B C7DA D782 DAB8 On Tue, 9 Jun 2015, at 23:25, Zeev Pekar wrote:

Hello Andrejs and the Arch community!

we have updated all our dependencies(among them VTK to 6.1): http://asl.org.il/2015/06/09/ASL-0.1.2_released/

Now we look for volunteers to add ASL package for Arch - please, send us a link, so we can follow the process and make contributions.

Thank you in advance! Zeev

ps: we still need 17 more "Likes" on Facebook to get a proper URL... https://www.facebook.com/pages/Avtech-Scientific/828973737156105

On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 15:14 +0300, Andrejs Mivreņiks wrote:

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Hello!

It looks like an interesting tool, thank you for licensing it under a free license.

Although it looks like your software requires VTK version 5.8[1] which is an outdated version of the VTK library/system. Currently only 6.1.0 version is available from official repositories[2]. Even though it is possible to create a package for AUR with legacy VTK version as dependency, it will not be likely that your software is going to be added to the official repository as well as making it much longer to build.

Please update your software to use the most recent version of VTK.

Regards

[1] https://github.com/AvtechScientific/ASL/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt#L30 [2] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=vtk