On 07/05/2009 08:47 AM, Brad wrote: > 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. > This thread is years old. It probably shouldn't be bumped. If you want to revive this topic you should send a new email to fedora-devel with a better subject and some body text that makes a better starting point to a discussion. Are you mailing devel-list because you are interested again in packaging vpython? --CJD > > 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 >> > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
