I have rpms for older versions of vpython and a tutorial on how to make
rpms. Here is some information that might be
useful(http://rpmbuildtut.wordpress.com/). Let me know if you need any help.
Brad Longo
North Carolina State University
Aerospace Engineering/Applied Mathematics
Raleigh, NC USA
862.266.7066
brad.longo@xxxxxxxxx
Casey Dahlin wrote
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: vPython
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:54:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: Greg Dekoenigsberg <gdk@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Casey Dahlin <cdahlin@xxxxxxxxxx>
References: <46979159.2050605@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Casey Dahlin wrote:
At NCSU, nearly every student in every department codes a small
subset of python once during their studies. This is due to the
physics department's use of a library called vPython. vPython is
simply a 3d library. Its capabilities are very limited but it is
extremely simple to use. Basically any student who takes a physics
lab at state (usually a general education requirement) learns to
model physics problems in vPython (admittedly without ever seeing so
much as a conditional or loop).
I bring this up because vPython is very very difficult to install on
Fedora. there is no RPM, and many of the dependencies for building
the source are very difficult to resolve due to conflicts etc.
However I do have a friend who has found a procedure to do it. What
would be the process for getting vPython included as a package in
Fedora? It'd be one step closer to getting the Physics people off of
win2k.
It is not a simple process. It should probably be simpler. But it's
not rocket science, either. It's documented here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join
If you'd like to do this, I'd really appreciate a newbie's detailed
impressions of the process of joining the world of Fedora packagers. :)
--g
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